Reading age ,

[mandieb]

There was a post on a while ago saying how you can work out your childs reading age ,but I cant find it now so does anyone know how to do this in an easy way .Thanks in advance.

1. Choose a sample text from the book. It should be exatly 100 words. (Handy hint mark the beginning and end of your sample text lightly with a pencil).

2. Count the number of complete sentences. Write this down. (a)

• Count the total number of words in these sentences, and write it down. (b)

• Calculate the average sentence length (b/a)

3. Count the number of words of 3 or more syllables in the sample text. (c)

4. Now calculate (b/a) + c (d)

5. The FOG index is 0.4 * d

To convert FOG to a reading age consult chart below.

FOG -> Reading Age
1 -> 6
2 -> 7
3 -> 8
4 -> 9
5 -> 10
6 -> 11
7 -> 12
8 -> 13
9 -> 14
10 -> 15
11 -> 16
12 -> 17
13 -> 18

sorry that isn't how to work out a child's reading age, but how to work out the reading age of a book.

It was roisin who posted it BTW

Oh OK thanks for that this is the one I saw .So does anyone know how to work out the actual reading age . ?

Any one

There are lots of different ways to calculate reading age, and most methods will come up with different ages....depending on whether you are testing decoding skills or comprehension (and most tests do one or the other).

Have a look at the Reading Reform Forum website. On the left near the bottom of the first page are links to the Burt Reading Test, the Schonell Spelling Test and the Ruth Miskin Nonsense Word Test. These may be what you are after....HTH

Thanks

There have been a couple of threads over the past few months - one here , another here . ds did a test recommended by either Roisin or Catflap but can't find that thread atm.

Think it was Burt's Reading Assessment

Crumbs, I rmemeber doing that test in, erm, 1978 and 1979! In 1978 I failed to read subtlety and phthisis! I can still remember struggling over them and to this day always spell subtlety subtetly and have to revise it.

I've never come across the word phthisis in real life just remember looking it up in a dictionary to find out what it was and how it was pronounced so I could get it right the next year.

Thanks for that it was exactly what I was looking for .

Not guilty Lizs

And I'm not sure Catflap would be impressed to be mentioned in the same breath as me, let alone mistaken for me

thank you for these links.

he he
my children are going to get that test

lol my mistake !!

That link is very interesting.

I tried it out on ds, who is miles behind the rest of his class (I don't care he is making progress and it totaly fab!) and he scored bang on his age!

Did we read less in the 1970s or summat???? I can't believe that TBH!

Lizs - it just made me laugh. Catflap and I tend not to see eye-to-eye on quite a few things

Hadn't gone entirely unnoticed !!