Students in grades 3-10 receive a Lexile measure for ELA and a Quantile measure for math from the Wyoming Test of Proficiency and Progress (WY-TOPP). Lexile and Quantile measures can be used to inform instruction, monitor growth, and support student learning at school and at home.

What is a Lexile measure?

There are two kinds of Lexile measures: Lexile reading measures and Lexile text measures. Lexile reading measures describe a student’s reading comprehension ability.  Lexile text measures describe the difficulty, or complexity, of a text like a book or magazine article. 

To understand more about your child’s Lexile measures, including interpreting a Lexile score, please visit the Family Information page or watch An Introduction to the Lexile Framework for Reading.


Students and parents can access Wyoming’s GoWYLD State Library Online Database to access online newspaper and magazine articles that match their Lexile range.

What is a Quantile measure?

Similar to Lexile measures, there are two types of Quantile measures: a measure that represents students’ math abilities, and a measure for mathematical skills and concepts. The student measure describes what mathematics the student likely already understands and what the student is ready to learn in the future. The skill measure describes the difficulty, or demand, of learning the skill.

To understand more about your child’s Quantile measures, including interpreting a Qualtile score, please visit the Family Information page or watch An Introduction to the Quantile Framework for Mathematics.

The Hub

Be sure to review the Tools Overview under the tools dropdown as well as the new User Guides located in the Lexile and Quantile Hub Support Center. 

Visit the Lexile® & Quantile® Hub Resource Center to access free resources including Decodable Passages, Lexile maps, Lexile Grade Level Charts, and WordLists for reading.

Need short, easy videos to learn the Lexile® and Quantile® Hub Tools? Check out the video library.

Search among over half a million books using the Find a Book tool so you can:

  • Search by a student’s Lexile measure or range, grade level, or interests.
  • Preview challenging words and their definitions for each book.
  • Identify the Lexile level and vocabulary by chapter for over 1,600 popular books.
  • Create and manage personal book lists.

Search and sort decodable books so you can:

  • Find books with the specific long and short vowel sound(s) that match your instructional sequence.
  • See sound spelling percentages, spelling patterns, sight words, and more.
  • Identify irregular words or contractions that may be difficult for a beginning reader.
  • Sort books by percentage of a vowel sound, Lexile measure, or word count.

Access over 100 online printable passages that students can read to practice specific phonics skills. The passages:

  • Are written by published authors of decodable books.
  • Accommodate popular scopes or sequences.
  • Include one illustration and two comprehension questions.

Access downloadable lists of important words by grade and domain that students are likely to encounter in textbooks and other K-12 educational materials.

  • Domains include math, science, social studies, and general.
  • Create your own customized lists of consequential words from a collection of 40 million words based on general and academic domain K-12 vocabulary.
  • Lists can be downloaded and printed.

Access thousands of math resources including lesson plans, activities, videos, games, and more. The Resources:

  • Are aligned to state standards.
  • Have been evaluated, and a quantitative measure of mathematical complexity has been assigned.
  • Can be filtered by type, format, or grade range.

View math skills and concepts associated with your state’s standards. 

  • Unpack state-specific standards to view prerequisite, focus, and impending math skills associated with the standard.
  • Compare the Quantile level of math skills to the Quantile readiness of a class, group, or individual student.
  • Search for free resources by keyword, Quantile measure, or content strand.
  • Save and share favorite resources.

Determine a student’s optimal reading or math measure when two assessments, taken within 30 days of each other, have resulted in significantly differing Lexile or Quantile measures.

Chart a student’s reading and math growth using annual state assessments and forecast future growth. With the Growth Planners, you can:

  • Forecast college and career readiness with Lexile and Quantile measures.
  • Compare individual student results to national student performance.
  • Explore career options along with expected reading/math demands.
  • View national, state, and regional career information.
  • Access resources to support growth in reading and math.
  • Lexile Growth Planner
  • Quantile Growth Planner

View Lexile and Quantile measures by grade level to see how a large sample of students in grades 1-12 performed based on 2010-2019 research. 

  • The charts provide norms at the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles for fall, winter, and spring testing.  
  • The charts are provided for descriptive purposes only and are not intended to be interpreted as state performance standards.
  • Lexile Grade Level Charts
  • Quantile Grade Level Charts

Discover the Lexile® & Quantile® Hub from MetaMetrics for interactive and printable reading passages tailored to a wide range of Lexile levels. Educators get free access to all premium tools and resources. Just register using your school or district email. Visit the ELL Practice Passages in the Lexile & Quantile Hub Resource Center and use the Filter option to find the passages.

Identify the Lexile level and/or Quantile level associated with the entry-level reading and/or math demands of a particular career (30 searches per month per registered user).

Contact
Barb Marquer

Supervisor of Standards

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