Text Complexity and Book Leveling

     I found the article "Text Complexity: Is This Book at Grade Level?" interesting mainly because of the author's stance on Lexile level.  We just talked about Lexile level in our other LLED class last week and I have definitely heard of it before.  I knew previously to reading this that CCSS put an emphasis on Lexile levels as well. With all this previous knowledge, I found it interesting that the author said that the Lexile level was the least important aspect to consider.  Honestly, it made me think about what I would consider most important when choosing books for my students.  
     The article on text complexity was also enlightening.  I think as educators, we need to make sure we are preparing students for literacy success in college and in the workplace...if we're not, what exactly are we doing? Through reading this article, I discovered that there are many factors that affect the complexity of a text.  As teachers, we need to be very aware of all of these aspects to make sure that the texts we are providing for students, whether fictional or informational, are a good medium of hard enough, but comprehendible.