Reading Assessment and Readability Tests and Tools
READING RESOURCES ONLINE
Programs that Determine Reading Difficulty and grade level.
Clear Language and Design Reading Effectiveness Tool
Fry Graph Check the Readability of a Piece of Writing
easy-to-use readability graphs. You will find the directions on this site page.
Literacy | Reading Test | Reading Assessment
Also See
- Readability Tests
- Readability of a Website
- Readability of a local HTML Document
- Interpreting the Results
- Gunning-Fog Index
- The Gunning Fox Index, the Flesch Formula, and the Power Sumner Kearl formula explained to determine readability levels,and one that explains readability and its relation to school textbooks.
- Lexicool.com text analyzer
- Readability Plus Software (for both the PC or Mac) which includes the readability formulas for Dale-Chall, Fry, Flesch Grade Level, Flesch Reading Ease, FOG, SMOG, FORCAST, Powers-Somner-Kearl, and Spache.
- Check the readability level of a passage using the Flesch Reading Ease and the Flesch-Kincaid grade level built into the newest versions of Microsoft® Word 2007 will display readability statistics. ..
- Click Microsoft Office button --> click Word Options --> Proofing.
----> grammar with spelling ---> When correcting grammar in Word ---> Show readability statistics - Flesch-Kincaid statistics explained #19
- When finished Microsoft® Word shows the reading level of the document.
Databases of Leveled Books.
- Beaverton School District: Leveled Books Database
- Early Intervention Leveled Books Database
- Harcourt Textbook Leveling Guide
- Leveled Picture Books Database
- Lexile Analyzer
- Lexile Level Searchable Database
- Readability and School Books Explanation
Before you buy that textbook research it with The Textbook League.
LITERATURE - ONLINE READING RESOURCES - FOR THE CLASSROOM OR AT HOME
Reading Level Estimator, Reading Assessments
www.liverpool.k12.ny.us/
http://pt.liverpool.k12.ny.us/reading/levelestimator/estimator.htm
& Reading Assessment Calculator
http://pt.liverpool.k12.ny.us/reading/rcalculator/assessmentcalc.htm
Readability of a website for special needs students. http://wave.webaim.org It is very complicated, but if you teach special education students it could provide a very worthwhile look at ways to improve Internet assignments. Don't think this is a quick look, it requires reading. In other words, this site is not for the weak of will.




