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Grote-Garcia, Stephanie – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2017
This discussion focused on navigating the layers of text complexity to determine the embedded text supports provided by authors. Quantitative dimensions of the texts were examined, such as word count, number of sentences, sentence length, unique words, most used words and phrases, sentence variety, Flesch-Kincaid grade levels, and Flesch-Kincaid…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Difficulty Level, Readability, Text Structure
Sakari, Mary D. – 1996
A study examined 52 stories for grades 1-6, randomly chosen from 10 American and Canadian literature-based reading series containing well-known selections by well-known authors. The study compared the reading series selection to the original story cited in the series acknowledgments, seeking patterns of difference in wording, paragraph structure,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Editing, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries