Return-Path: <root> Received: (from root@localhost) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f7VBqVI09200 for health-archive@nifl.gov; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:52:31 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200108311152.f7VBqVI09200@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from rly-ip02.mx.aol.com (rly-ip02.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.160]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1RN58908328 for <nifl-health@nifl.gov>; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:05:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from tot-th.proxy.aol.com (tot-th.proxy.aol.com [152.163.213.1]) by rly-ip02.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/AOL-5.0.0) with ESMTP id SAA19100 for <nifl-health@nifl.gov>; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:04:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from webster.edu (AC922C21.ipt.aol.com [172.146.44.33]) by tot-th.proxy.aol.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f1RN4R419804 for <nifl-health@nifl.gov>; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:04:27 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A9C26A3.379B83E8@webster.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:13:55 -0500 From: Jeri Levesque <levesqjr@webster.edu> Reply-To: levesqjr@webster.edu Organization: Webster University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en To: nifl-health@nifl.gov Subject: Re: [NIFL-HEALTH:2872] SMOG Readability assessment References: <3A9C1448.D2372264@amc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Apparently-From: JALsails@aol.com Resent-From: root@literacy.nifl.gov Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:52:31 -0400 Resent-To: health-archive@nifl.gov Status: O Content-Length: 991 Lines: 28 Kathy, According to every text I've used to teaching reading methods, SMOG is the acronym for Simple Measure of Gobbledeguk Honest! Used mostly for a level of recreational reading. developed by G. Harry McLaughlin in 1969 for RAPIDLY estimating the readability of middle-grade materials. Now hang on - how rapidly can you count 10 consecutive sentences near the beginning, the middle and the end of a passage. Now take all 30 sentences and count every word of three are more syllables. Okay, now flash think fast - and calculate and "estimate the square root of the number of polysyllabic words counted. This is done by taking the the square root of the nearest perfect square. Add three to the approximate square root. This gives the SMOG grade. Things were different during the Summer of '69 ; - ) Jeri Levesque Webster University Kathy Plomer wrote: > Hi everyone- > Can anyone tell me what SMOG stands for? I've never seen the acronym > spelled out. Thank you! > Kathy Plomer
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