Reading Assessment and Readability Tests and Tools

READING RESOURCES ONLINE

San Diego Quick Assessment

Programs that Determine Reading Difficulty and grade level.

K-3 Reading Assessment Tool

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.