Literacy Place Lexiles
Grades 1 – 6
Please see notes that follow 6th grade, explaining Lexile codes and
individual selection Lexile measures.
1st Grade
Unit 1 Cat on the Mat – 140
Unit 2 Who Hit It? – 50
The Good Bad Cat – BR
Unit 3 Caps, Hats, Socks, and Mittens – 240
The Little Red Hen – 500
Eek! There's a Mouse in the House – 220
Unit 4 In the Attic – 540
Starring First Grade – 520
Unit 5 I’m a Caterpillar – 60
The Garden (from Frog and Toad Together – 330)
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut – 380
Unit 6 It Takes a Village – 390
Maps and Journeys (from Around and About Maps and
Journeys AD 550)
The Park Bench – AD 370
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2nd Grade
Unit 1 Ducky – 440
Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat – 200
Ruby the Copycat – 500
Shipwreck Saturday – 430
George Ancona: Then and Now – AD 700
Unit 2 The Treasure Hunt – 470
Pigsty – AD 590
The Paper Crane – 790
Unit 3 The Enormous Carrot – 470
The Swallow's Gift – 430
Music, Music Everyone – AD 740
Unit 4 Abuelo and the Three Bears – AD 620
Little Grunt and the Big Egg – 400
Amazing Grace – 680
Unit 5 Stellaluna – 550
Balto: The Dog Who Saved Nome – 380
Ibis: A True Whale Story – 530
When the Monkeys Came Back – AD 650
Unit 6 Fire Fighters – 740
Follow the Drinking Gourd – AD 630
Miss Spider’s Tea Party – 810
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3rd Grade
Unit 1 Gila Monsters Meet you at the Airport – 560
Ramona Forever – 810
How My Family Lives in America – 840
On the Pampas – 1010
Unit 2 The Little Red Ant And The Great Big Crumb – 460
The Book of Think – 450
Dragon in the Rocks - 690
A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison – 700
Unit 3 Too Many Tamales – 670
The Legend of the Persian Carpet – 780
Doctor De Soto – 560
Unit 4 The Three Little Javelinas -740
Little House on the Prairie – 760
The Magic School Bus Hops Home – 400
Jessi’s Baby-sitter – 630
Unit 5
Home Place – AD760
Wild and Woolly Mammoths – 730
Tornado –500L
Pueblo Storyteller - 830
Unit 6 The Gardener- 570
Tonight Is Carnival – 630
The Wise Old Woman -870
…If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island -880
Mary McLeod Bethune –Greenfield 750
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4th Grade
Unit 1 Young Arthur - AD690
Cherokee Summer - 790
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters - AD720
Unit 2 The Invention of Sneakers - 1260
The Doughnuts - 1000
Wings - 760
Unit 3 The Lost Lake - 420
Sarah, Plain and Tall – 560
Unit 4 Yours Truly, Goldilocks - AD810
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency - 780
Fifteen Minutes - 490
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind – 820
Unit 5 Ali Baba Hunts for a Bear - 720
Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back - 960
The Great Kapok Tree – 670
Unit 6 Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House - AD640
Rain Player - AD530
The Rag Coat - AD630
Teammates - 930
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5th Grade
Unit 1 Fox Song – 820
Number the Stars – 670
Out of the Dust – NP
Unit 2 No Lexiles available
Unit 3 The Bunyans – 980
Ship – 1250
Homesick: My Own Story – 860
Wilma Unlimited – AD730
Unit 4 From Miss Ida's Porch – 730
Phantom Tollbooth – 1000
Unit 5 Toliver’s Secret – 740
The Way West: Journal of a Pioneer Woman – 820
The House of Dies Drear – 670
Unit 6 Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street – 600
The Brooklyn Bridge – 820
Cricket in Times Square – 780
The City by the Bay – NC1060
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6th Grade
Unit 1 Seventh Grade: 830
The Invisible Thread: 1060
The Mozart Season: 690
No Ordinary Baby: 1010
Zlata's Diary: 640
Unit 2 The Story of Three Kingdoms: 570 Lexile
Black Star, Bright Dawn: 670 Lexile
Hatchet: 1020 Lexile
Unit 3 The Toothpaste Millionaire: 870 Lexile
The Adamses of Georgia: 1070
Greek Myths: 850 Lexile
Unit 4 The Tale of the Tiger's Paintbrush: 790 Lexile
Engineering of a Model: 1160 Lexile
Comic Books for Fun and Profit: 1110 Lexile
Tom Feelings: 920 Lexile
Unit 5 Exploring the Titanic: 980 Lexile
The Day We Walked on the Moon: 1060 Lexile
Forbidden City: 870 Lexile
Unit 6 Alice in Wonderland: 860 Lexile
The Case of Filbert Flub: 880
Tool for Change: 840 Lexile
Honoring their Ancestors: 820 Lexile
Shiloh: 890 Lexile
Eleanor Roosevelt: 1100 Lexile
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Notes Regarding Lexile Text Measures and Codes
Lexile text measures were taken from lexile.com
There is no Lexile listed, if a story/selection was not listed in
lexile.com.
Lexile text measures are determined by sentence length and word
frequency. If a selection is an excerpt from a longer story, then the
selection’s Lexile could be higher than shown on this document.
Lexile Codes: (from lexile.com)
• AD: Adult Directed
• NC: Non-Conforming
• HL: High-Low
• IG: Illustrated Guide
• GN: Graphic Novel
• BR: Beginning Reading
• NP: Non-Prose
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