About Spanish Lexile Measures for Reading
Spanish Reading Framework Serves Students, Educators and Parents
El Sistema Lexile® para Leer, the reading framework for Spanish, is an integral tool for schools across the United States. Just like the Lexile® Framework for Reading, a student’s Spanish Lexile reader measure can help match with appropriately challenging texts with Spanish Lexile measures. Also, Spanish Lexile measures help monitor student progress in reading over time.
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Search for Spanish and bilingual books at your student’s reading ability using the "Books in Spanish" toggle in the upper right corner of our Lexile® Find a Book tool.
Lexile Measure Ranges for Spanish Text in Grades 1-12
A MetaMetrics’ study begun in 2017 examined Spanish texts in grades 1-5 from a sample of states where statewide textbook adoptions were common practice. The study confirmed that, like English text complexity, Spanish text complexity increases across grades 1-5 and varies within each grade.
| Grade | Beginning of Year | End of Year |
| 1 | 450L | 540L |
| 2 | 505L | 655L |
| 3 | 635L | 740L |
| 4 | 700L | 810L |
| 5 | 730L | 870L |
| 6 | 760L | 940L |
| 7-8 | 795L | 995L |
| 9-12 | 960L | 1070L |
* These text ranges represent approximately the middle 50 percent of the distribution of text complexity measures for each grade level.
Read our research describing this work: The Spanish Text Complexity Continuum in Grades 1-5 and The Spanish Text Complexity Continuum in Grades 1-12