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Carter, Betty – School Library Journal, 2000
Discusses the desirability of creating lifelong readers and suggests that the use of formulas to measure the reading levels of books and tests that assign reading levels to students do not help. Offers suggestions for school librarians to encourage reading, including helping students select books through readers' advisory. (LRW)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Achievement, Reading Motivation
Peer reviewedAntonacci, Patricia A. Pierce – Reading Horizons, 1988
Identifies problems in basal readers caused by writers' use of vocabulary control and readability formulas. Provides suggestions for more effective employment of the basal reader, including suggestions on how to teach students to construct meaning from less than perfect texts. (ARH)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Aloud to Others
Bouffler, Chrystine – Australian Journal of Reading, 1984
It has been customary to simplify texts to increase their readability for young readers. Recent studies suggest that it is the predictability of texts that is the key to their readability and that simplification may actually create problems for the reader. (RBW)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Comprehension
