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Determining Readability: How to Select and Apply Easy-to-Use Readability Formulas to Assess the Difficulty of Adult Literacy Materials
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- Author(s): Burke, Victoria; Greenberg, Daphne
- Language:
English
- Source:
Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal. Spr 2010 4(1):34-42.
- Physical Description:
PDF
- Publication Date:
2010
- Document Type:
Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
- Online Access:
- Additional Information
- Availability:
Commission on Adult Basic Education and ProLiteracy America. 1320 Jamesville Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210. Tel: 315-422-9121; Web site: http://www.coabe.org
- Peer Reviewed:
Y
- Source:
9
- Education Level:
Adult Basic Education
Adult Education
- Subject Terms:
- ISSN:
1934-2322
- Abstract:
There are many readability tools that instructors can use to help adult learners select reading materials. We describe and compare different types of readability tools: formulas calculated by hand, tools found on the Web, tools embedded in a word processing program, and readability tools found in a commercial software program. Practitioners do not need expensive software or extensive training to determine reading levels of materials. We include instructions for using the Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid, SMOG, Dale-Chall, Spache, FORCAST, Fry, and RIX readability formulas. (Contains 4 tables.)
- Abstract:
As Provided
- Number of References:
48
- Publication Date:
2010
- Accession Number:
EJ877228
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