We offer two research-based vocabulary tools that can support this critical aspect of literacy and add significant value to your product:
Lexile® WordBank is a licensable database of words to support the development of curriculum materials and assessments that target vocabulary students should already know or to introduce new words at the right stage of learning.
Lexile® PowerV®, an add-on to the Lexile® Text Analyzer Content Creator, takes the content you’re developing and produces a vocabulary list of challenging words a student should know when reading a particular text. Teachers can use these lists to support differentiated instructional resources, games, practice sheets and teacher guides.
Research Highlights
- Updated High-Frequency Phrase List for Today’s Beginning Readers
Read the blog post to learn more about this new resource for beginning readers and the research behind it! - Lexile WordBank and Academic Vocabulary in K-12
This research brief describes the creation of a new vocabulary resource for K-12, based on a corpus of approximately 40 million running words, drawn from the top four best-selling textbook programs in science, math, social studies, and reading/ELA all published since 2011.
“Vocabulary is a pillar of literacy and growing readers need to build on their vocabulary foundation as they encounter more complex and content-specific texts. A robust vocabulary, coupled with background knowledge helps learners enjoy reading and develop into lifelong readers.”
- Jillian Balow, Chief Client Relations Officer
(from the blog post, The Five Pillars of the Science of Reading)