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Fry, Edward – 1989
A new readability formula is designed to work on passages that are 40 to 99 words long, while existing readability formulas require a passage of 300 words or longer. The new formula requires the passage to have at least three sentences and is reliable for the fourth through the twelfth grades. (Four figures which demonstrate the use of the formula…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, Intermediate Grades, Readability
Hahn, Joan M.; Goldman, Susan R. – 1983
Developmental differences in summaries of expository texts were examined for fourth and sixth grade students in two experiments. Experiment 1 used texts that had a description content structure whereas Experiment 2 texts had a thesis/evidence content structure. Manipulation of the presence or absence of the topic sentence allowed the examination…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, Intermediate Grades
