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Measures of Text Difficulty EDC423 Dr. Julie Coiro

Today’s Learning Objectives MTH Unit Workshop: Check in about your guiding inquiry question Time to work with partner… Practice pulling into Blendspace Questions? What makes a text challenging? What measures are available to help determine the difficulty level of a text?

What makes a text difficult to read? (or complex) Difficulty of vocabulary (unfamiliar) Format (size of font, length) – longer > harder; smaller font > harder Dialogue Punctuation & Text formatting (bold, italics) Diagrams, graphs, Informational vs. narrative Number of words per page Sentence structure (n/v, length) vocabulary (academic, difficulty) Level that's on the book pictures (lack = more challenging) content (more common = easier) book thickness/number of pages (most likely more pages = more difficult) genre (informational, fictional, fantasy/mystery)

Computing Text Difficulty Fry Readability Formula Sentence Length and Word Length 3 Random 100-word samples Count and average # of sentences Count # of syllables in 100 words; average across three samples Plot the intersection of average sentences (side) and average syllables (bottom)

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What else makes reading hard? (Class on Thursday) Expository texts: Varied organizational structures in same text Academic vocabulary; Referential challenges Hybrid texts: Author combines elements of narrative and exposition to convey information about natural or social world

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