[NIFL-AALPD:1188] Re: Readability

From: Martha Galphin (marthagalphin@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 21 2004 - 11:50:55 EST 

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Kathleen -- thank you for this tip!
Martha Galphin
grad student and ESL teacher, NYC

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From: "Kathleen Olson"
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Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1178] Re: Readability
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:10:23 -0500 (EST)
If you have Microsoft Word - go to Tools: Options: Spelling and Grammar and check Show readability statistics. Then you can scan or type in the material you want readability on. Once you click on the spell check icon (the ABC with the check mark) it will run the spell check and then provide Flesch-Kinkaid readability data including ease of reading, number of sentences, number of passive sentences, words per sentence, etc.  It is wonderful and EASY!
>>> AWilder106@aol.com 03/19/04 13:34 PM >>>
Hi folks,
How do you evaluate a text for readability?
I can find  some information on readability, but nothing about what real teachers do in real classrooms.
There is grade level...but how  do you figure it?
There is functional level, which is extrapolated from grade level...
Then there is what I'll call language level, which depends on the teacher knowing sequence of highest probability of sounds and sound combinations in English, plus some sight words thrown in.
Thanks for any help--examples, references, guides, etc.
Ignorant in Cambridge,
Andrea

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