Focus on Vocabulary – Lexile® WordBank & Lexile® PowerV®

Identify Words Students Need to Know With Lexile^® WordBank

Develop curriculum materials and assessments targeting the vocabulary that students are most likely to encounter with WordBank, a licensable database that can be used in a variety of educational applications. Query, filter and sort the WordBank to:

• Verify or create content for grade-level appropriateness.
• Make relevant test items with vocabulary students have been exposed to.
• Create lists of words that students typically encounter in K-12 texts by grade and by domain – math, science, social studies and reading/English Language Arts.

The WordBank’s approximately 50,000 words come from the top four best-selling K-12 textbook programs published since 2011. When you develop learning and assessment resources with the WordBank, the vocabulary is recent and relevant.

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Develop Lists of Challenging Words With PowerV

Use PowerV to develop vocabulary lists for books or texts so educators can teach:

• Harder words that are above the Lexile^® measure of the surrounding text.
• Words that appear more frequently in the text compared to other texts and are important for understanding themes and topics.
• Words where students can apply base word knowledge to expand their vocabulary to different forms of the word.
• Words that are academic and important for school success.

With the Lexile PowerV Application Programming Interface (API):

• Create vocabulary lists for large quantities of texts.
• Develop lists by specifying different Lexile ranges from the same text to meet the needs of students with different Lexile measures.
• Access vocabulary lists for over thousands of titles with the Lexile^® Titles Database.

Lexile PowerV^® is also available as an add-on service for Lexile text measurement.