Not every book in the world (or even in the ERC) has had a Lexile measure applied to it. If you need to have a Lexile number for your reading assignment, you can make use of the Lexile Analyzer by following the directions below.
2. Go to a word processing program and type in a section of the text to be measured. Be sure to look for a nice long section that is representative of the book overall. That is, if you have one page with nothing but vocabulary, it might not be the best selection to get a feeling for the level of the book as a whole.
3. Save the text you have typed in as a PLAIN TEXT (txt) document. DO NOT save it as a Word (doc) document as that contains hidden formatting which will confuse the Analyzer.
4. Return to the Lexile Analyzer page.
5. Click the Browse button to up load your file. In a matter of seconds you will have a Lexile measure for the passage you typed in.
6. Done. If you don’t see a Lexile measure for your passage, chances are pretty good you have uploaded a Word file rather than a Plain Text file. Try that first. You may also run into problems with books that use incomplete sentences as is the case with poetry and some alphabet books. Those types of items get the NP Lexile which may or may not be satisfactory for your assignment.