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Evans, Charles S. – Social Studies, 1987
Presents a study of United States History textbooks that identifies possible shortcomings of several readability formulas as tools in determining the appropriateness of reading materials. Suggests additional factors to consider when selecting textbooks and techniques to help students understand reading materials. (AEM)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Ability
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Venable, Gail Portnuff – Topics in Language Disorders, 2003
These exercises and examples pertain to readability information presented in preceding articles. They are designed to help speech language pathologists test their intuitions about word and text difficulty and to see readability data from a number of quantitative formulas applied to passages across a wide range of levels. (Contains 8 references.)…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Language Impairments, Readability
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Venable, Gail Portnuff – Topics in Language Disorders, 2003
Examples are provided that show readability in action in diverse settings. The first shows how readability analysis resulted in a new fluency monitoring protocol in three school districts in Northern California. The others present hypothetical school, clinic, and research situations that a speech language pathologist might encounter. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Language Impairments
Collins, Vickie L. – 1990
This edition is an annotated list of 390 literacy materials for adult new readers. All the materials are written on an eighth-grade level or below. These paperback instructional titles, many in workbook format, are for use with adult basic education (ABE) and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students. The introduction includes guidelines for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading