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Peer reviewedGranowsky, Alvin; Botel, Morton – Reading Teacher, 1974
Acknowledging widely recognized shortcomings of readability formulas, the authors propose a technique for analyzing syntactic complexity. (RB)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Measurement Instruments, Readability
PDF pending restorationSchwartz, Roswitha E. W. – 1975
The development of a readability formula designed to determine the readability level of German instructional materials at the elementary level is discussed in this paper. The readability formula which was developed is called the German Readability Graph and is similar to the Fry Readability Graph. Syllables and number of sentences are counted per…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, German
