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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Readability Level"”.
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Selected Tales from Georgia Indian Tribes with Suggested Application in Junior High School English and Social Studies Curricula
… suggested activities for use with the book. The readability level of all tales was checked using the Fry formula. Afterwards, the included tales were rewritten on a fourth/fifth grade level and reevaluated by the Fry formula. The objectives conform to the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor …
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What Georgia's Middle Graders are Reading: An Analysis of Selected Georgia Book Award Recipients
… review-analysis of each title includes a readability level, publication date, year nominated, brief sketch of the protagonist, and a synopsis of the book. The review of the literature focuses on similar studies along thematic lines and notes the controversy as to the place and value of …
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Using author studies to incorporate multicultural literature across the New Jersey core curriculum
… Content Standards. The study showed that readability level of the selected works by Virginia Hamilton was excellent for students in grades four through six. Also, it was concluded that New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards that were found and evaluated within these works directly …
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Structural and Syntactical Differences Between Revised Writing and Impromptu Writing of Award-Winning Eighth-Grade Students
… by computer over a list of criteria including readability level, number of words, sentences, and paragraphs, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, usage, sentence length and variety, and verb choice. Although data revealed significant differences between the two sets of writings (primarily …
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Translations of informed consent documents for clinical trials in South Africa: are they readable?
… documents should be directed at a reading level of grade 6 to 8 and that common, everyday words should be used rather than complex language syntax. The HREC expects researchers to translate the approved English version documents into local languages such as isiXhosa and Afrikaans. Since …
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An exploration of strategy-based reading instruction using expository science text in grades 2-5
… teachers in this study were concerned with the readability level of the science texts that are available in grades 2-5, and that time barriers that exist for science instruction during the school day. Implications for further research may include alignment of reading strategy instruction with …
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An evaluation of educational literature distributed by the Child Health Investment Partnership
… parents was identified and evaluated in terms of readability level and availability of information to assist with meeting the identified needs of CHIP parents. One-hundred percent (n=137) of the educational material available to CHIP staff through their library was analyzed. Readability levels …
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Relationships between Reading Level of Parents, Readability of Special Education Documents/Forms, Knowledge of <em>IEP</em> Contents, and Parental Involvement.
… to describe the relationship between the reading level of parents of students in special education and the readability level of special education documents/forms. A related purpose was to determine whether a difference between reading level and the readability of documents/forms was related to …
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Students' Comprehension of the Almeida Version and a Modern Version of the Bible in Portuguese (A Biblia Na Linguagem de Hoje) In Selected Public Schools of Brazil : A Comparative Study
… the students on the sixteen Biblical texts. The readability level of each text was determined through the criterion "nineteen out of fifty" set for this study. According to this criterion, 62.5 percent of the texts in the modern version were shown to be readable for eighth-grade students and 81.3 …