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Fry Readability Formula
Selecting Appropriate Texts
Levels of Readability
Leveling of books
100
This gives teachers an estimate of the readability of the text.
What is Fry Readability Formula?
100
When children read easy material that interests them it causes this.
What is motivated?
100
Reading 95 to 100% accuracy with a 90% comprehension level.
What is Independent reading level?
100
The publisher assigns an intended age for which the book was written.
What is Age leveling?
200
These two types of textbooks are the easiest to understand how the formula works.
What is Science and Social Studies?
200
These are other options that teachers use to read besides books.
What are magazines and the internet?
200
The reader makes more than 10 errors in a 100 word passage.
What is Frustration reading level?
200
Reading Recovery and Fountas and Pinnell are two types using numbers and letters.
What is Gradient leveling?
300
This is where the three passages are found in the book.
What is the beginning, middle, and end?
300
Effective teachers use a wide variety of this.
What are reading materials?
300
This is based on the percentage of words students read correctly.
What is Readability levels?
300
This is based on sentence length and the number of syllables in a sentence.
What is Grade leveling?
400
In the passages we are counting and averaging two important factors.
What is sentences and syllables?
400
Students should be challenged with a text during this.
What is reading with a teacher?
400
A student reads a passage with 90 to 94% accuracy.
What is Instructional reading level?
400
This measures the reading level and then it matches to the appropriate reading materials.
What is Lexile leveling?
500
This is the final (fourth) step of the Fry Readability formula.
What is plotting the averages on the graph to get the estimated reading level of the book?
500
We use easy reading-level texts to allow readers to build this instead of focusing on deciphering words.
What is comprehension?
500
The reader cannot comprehend unknown words quickly.
What is Frustration reading level?
500
These books differ from grade-leveled books in that they have a minute shift in difficulty between the levels.
What is Gradient Leveling?