School & testing
Reading level
An estimate of the text difficulty a child can read successfully.
A reading level (sometimes a Lexile or grade-equivalent number) estimates the difficulty of text a child can read with good comprehension. It helps match books and passages to a child so reading is challenging but not discouraging.
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