hi, I just joined this forum to answer similar questions of my own. My dd, age 10, scored a 1455. Her 9 year old score was 1285. She's a good reader but seriously, no way does she want to read the kinds of books lexile.com lists as a 1400+ book. I am taking the score with a lot of skepticism.
I think this is where interest in and ability to diverge. I understand completely what you mean. In our case, our DD10 is only interested in very complicated texts for nonfiction and fantasy for fiction. She routinely reads Time, Scientific American, political essays, the history of psychoanalysis etc. I am amazed at what she reads and particularly the
speed in which she reads them. I think a very high lexile allows this, IF the child finds the topics of interest.
