The Lexile Framework for Reading Recently, I plan to learn English by reading original English books. Well, if you plan to read original English book, someone must recommend you the lexile framework for reading. English books are divided into many levels relating to the difficulty of reading. You can pick books according to your reading ability. I picked one book called "A Wrinkle in Time". Its lexile score is not high, between 700 and 800. It's the level of 5th grade students in America. However, I can not read the book without an English dictionary. There are so many words I can not recognize. I am disappointed and confused. I have read a book called "Principles of Economics". It's a textbook of collage students. There are also some new words for me. However, I can read it smoothly. I can read a textbook of collage students. At the same time, I can not read a novel of 5th grade students. Can anybody tell me why? Maybe, one of the reasons is the new words. The textbook is difficult, but there are not so many new words for me. The novel maybe simple, but there are too many new words. Most of them are nouns. For example, there are so many kinds of vegetables. The names of them are all new words for me. I can not remember so many names.