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With more than 14 million students estimated to have received a Lexile measure in the 2003-2004 school year alone, the Lexile Framework for Reading is the most widely adopted reading measure in use today. Because the use of online resources for learning has become an everyday occurrence, Thinkronize, Inc., the developer of the netTrekker suite of safe educational search products, has assigned readability ratings to its bank of online resources for the classroom. netTrekker d.i. is the first online search product to include readability ratings for websites.
The netTrekker d.i. safe Internet search engine, specifically designed to support differentiated instruction, provides educators with fast and easy access to more than 180,000 educator-selected, standards-based online resources. The search engine goes a step further by assigning each resource a readability measure based on Lexile ratings and eight other popular methods. Using the standards-based search results generated by netTrekker d.i., an educator can find grade level content at one of five reading levels match to a particular student's abilities.
"Our district is spending a lot of time and energy working with Lexile scores for differentiated instruction," said Lori Baird, Information Technology and Enrichment, School District #1 in Brighton, Wis. "netTrekker d.i. will...