Hello Adult and Parent Educators - Adult Basic Education/GED, 

I'm interested to learn how your ABE/GED program determines readability of materials that you use with adult learners in your ABE or GED instruction--or how you do it individually.

Do you use a formula/measure/index such as Fry, Fog, FORCAST, Lexiles, Dale-Chall, or other?

Or do you take a holistic approach -- reading a passage yourself and getting a sense as to whether the vocabulary, expressions, sentence structure, length, required background knowledge, etc. would match your students' skill levels?

What works--what doesn't? What's worth the effort? 

Thanks for your thoughts on this. My organization trains adult literacy tutors and some occasionally ask for specific tools to determine readability.

Betsy Rubin
Chicago

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