Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World

Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World

by Jack Andraka and Matthew Lysiak

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Informational Text Complexity Measures

Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World

Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World

by Jack Andraka and Matthew Lysiak

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Lexile Level: 940L | ATOS^® Reading Level: 6.4 | Word Count: 44,288

Grade Band	Lexile^®	ATOS^®	Degrees of Reading Power^®	Flesch-Kincaid	Fountas & Pinnell	Reading Maturity	SourceRater
2-3	420L-820L	2.75-5.14	42-54	1.98-5.34	I-P	3.53-613	0.05-2.48
4-5	740L-1010L	4.97-7.03	52-60	4.51-7.72	O-V	5.42-7.92	0.84-5.75
6-8	925L-1185L	7.00-9.98	57-67	6.51-10.34	U-Z	7.04-9.57	4.11-10.66
9-10	1050L-1335L	9.67-12.01	62-72	8.32-12.12	Z+	8.41-10.81	9.02-13.93
11-12	1185L-1385L	11.20-14.10	67-74	10.34-14.20	Z+	9.57-12.00	12.30-14.50

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Source: National Governors Association for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers.[1]

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1. National Governors Association for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. "Supplemental Information for Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy: New Research on Text Complexity," Common Core State Standards Initiative (2014): 4. Accessed August 8, 2014, http://www.corestandards.org/assets/E0813_Appendix_A_New_Research_on_Text_Complexity.pdf.

2. Adapted from the CCSSO's ELA State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards, and the text complexity rubrics used by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction ELA Team.

3. Lexile^® is a trademark of MetaMetrics. Used under license.

4. ATOS^® is a trademark of Renaissance Learning, Inc. Used under license.