Grade 7 Text Titles and Lexile Ranges
| Text Title | Lexile Range | Final Certification Score |
|---|---|---|
| Middle School Cool | 900-1050 | poem* |
| The Unanswered Questions of Easter Island | 900-1050 | 1000 |
| Animal Heroes: LuLu the Potbellied Pig | 900-1050 | 960 |
| Plague and Cholera | 900-1050 | 930 |
| Excerpt from Epidemic | 900-1050 | 960 |
| For and Against Urban Development | 900-1050 | 950 |
| Animal Extinction: A Human Problem | 900-1050 | 990 |
| Building the Panama Canal | 900-1050 | 940 |
| Riding the European Rails | 900-1050 | 1000 |
| Viva America! Cubans in the United States | 900-1050 | 950 |
| OPERAcraft: Opera Meets Video Games | 900-1050 | 950 |
| It Just Doesn't Make Sense | 900-1050 | 950 |
| Greenies | 900-1050 | 910 |
| Women as War Correspondents | 900-1050 | 970 |
| Freedom Blues | 900-1050 | 900 |
| Olympics and Paralympics | 900-1050 | 1040 |
| Gandhi's Medicine: Satyagraha | 900-1050 | 1020 |
| Excerpt from The Life of César Chávez | 900-1050 | 970 |
| Melba and Me | 900-1050 | 950 |
| From Corey Gordon's Extremely Private Diary: Chapter 1 | 900-1050 | 950 |
| From Corey Gordon's Extremely Private Diary: Chapters 4 & 5 | 900-1050 | 930 |
| Sea Escape | 900-1050 | 900 |
| Dance Dilemma | 900-1050 | 1000 |
| The Frog Kisser of Hollow Wood | 900-1050 | 1000 |
| Sleep Crusader Saves the Day | 900-1050 | 1150** |
| Dot | 900-1050 | poem* |
| Brainy Ben Carson | 900-1050 | 910 |
| Trumpeter Swans: One Tough Kind of Fancy | 900-1050 | 1040 |
| Wolves of the Sea? | 900-1050 | 1030 |
| J. Michael Fay: Man of Action | 900-1050 | 1050 |
| Terrence Teen: 2040 | 900-1050 | 910 |
| Saving Salmon | 900-1050 | 980 |
| Antarctica: Life in the Balance | 900-1050 | 1040 |
| Blindness and the Brain | 900-1050 | 1030 |
| Family Dog | 900-1050 | 900 |
| Earth 101 | 900-1050 | 930 |
| The Big Wie-sy | 900-1050 | 950 |
| One Creepy Creature | 900-1050 | 1020 |
| Invasion of the Brother Kind | 900-1050 | 910 |
| Here Be Dragons | 900-1050 | 1030 |
| Backstage Blend | 900-1050 | 900 |
| Pioneers in American Music | 900-1050 | 950 |
| From Dics to Digits: Music in the Digital Age | 900-1050 | 1000 |
| The Trip of a Lifetime | 900-1050 | 950 |
| Teens Sailing Solo | 900-1050 | 950 |
| Doctors Without Borders | 900-1050 | 970 |
| The Honest Woodcutter | 900-1050 | 960 |
* Poems, table of contents, plays, decodable texts, and single words per page do not have a certified Lexile level due to formatting, word/sentence length, and grammar.
** This passage has a higher certified Lexile Level due to the content area vocabulary. The graphic and audio provide support and allow the student to acquire academic language and gain important background knowledge.