As DRA levels increase, what happens to the difficulty of the selections?

• A. It increases.
• B. It decreases.
• C. It stays the same.
• D. It becomes random.

Answer: (A)

DRA levels map directly to text complexity, so higher levels are designed to be more challenging. As the level increases, selections introduce richer vocabulary, longer and more complex sentences, and ideas that require deeper inference and analysis. Students must handle tougher concepts, more nuanced comprehension tasks, and greater reading stamina. That’s why the difficulty rises with higher DRA levels. The other options would imply the opposite, no change, or randomness, which doesn’t align with how the scale is built and used for matching texts to readers.