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Renaud, Aldeo – 1980
A study was conducted to evaluate the level of difficulty of textbooks (French and Sciences) written in French for use with sixth grade students. A cloze test was administered to a sample of sixth grade students in two francophone districts in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, and the Henry readability formula was applied to the same texts.…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries, French, Grade 6
Peer reviewedSmith, Lawrence L. – Reading Horizons, 1984
Describes two modifications to the SMOG Readability Formula designed to make it more useful for primary and intermediate grade materials. (FL)
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Primary Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Comprehension
Horn, Joan M. – 1978
Two readability formulas were applied to two math and two reading series textbooks at the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade levels to see whether the publishers' suggested reading levels were accurate. Five samples were taken from each text and compared to the publishers' suggested usage according to grade level. Results showed that although formulas…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Intermediate Grades, Mathematics Instruction
