There are many ways to calculate the estimated reading level of a writing sample. We will look at a series of methods used to determine the reading levels for different student age groups. Teachers can use these methods to determine whether new material is suitable for their class and also…
Tag: Reading
Books, books, and more books. We live surrounded by books. We could try to cull books from the boxes, or even the shelves. We have pulled some books for donation or to sell back to a used bookstore, but we rarely part with more than a handful of books. The…
Statistically speaking, we read a lot. Our children read a lot. We are a book-loving house of readers. We used to visit the local library and support its book sale during the summer. We had let our daughters browse the book fairs at school, too. Once of twice a month,…
Readers love books, and we certainly own a lot of the physical variety. Holding a book in your hands remains a special experience. However, you can only take a book or two with you most places, and sometimes you end up wanting a book when you don’t have one nearby.…
“I need to read 100 books this year,” our daughter declared at the start of her kindergarten year. At first, I thought this was a misunderstanding, but it wasn’t. Our local elementary school uses the Accelerated Reader (AR) program. They count books read. They check the levels and log them.…
A Midsummer Night’s Scream is book 15 in what is now, and hopefully remains, a 16-book series featuring Jane Jeffry, a crime-solving stay-at-home mother. The title of each book in the series is a play on a famous book title, cleverly tying the mysteries to Jane’s love of reading and…
I’ve been complaining lately that I don’t have enough to read. That isn’t true. It is more that I can’t find any GOOD books to read. What has happened to the publishing industry? Are they no longer hiring editors to reject the books that do not have a plot? Take…
I’ve been disappointed in most of the books I’ve read lately and I can’t figure out why. I’m hoping I’ve just run into a bad batch of books because the alternative is that I’ve lost interest in reading. And that isn’t possible. In the last few months I’ve read Ghouls…
I read many books on typography. Currently, I’m finishing a collection of essays and journal articles on typography. The articles date back to the late nineteenth century, with a particular concentration on two time periods: the 1920s and 1980s. The collection is: Heller, Steven, and Philip B. Meggs. Texts on…