[senco-forum] Re: books with reading level of 5 to 6 years

I'd be very interested to know this, too.

 As far as I am aware it has not yet been answered.

I was recently shown some supposedly 'high interest' books for a 
supposed RA of 6-8.  The one I saw was about cars and had words like ' 
Porsche' in it.    I think they thought that the fact that it had lots 
of nice pictures of cars and very little text qualified it for the 
supposed low RA.

Where are these publishers coming from?

Maggie

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean Hutchins <jeanhutchins2000 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Sent: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:43:54 +0100
Subject: [senco-forum] Re: books with reading level of 5 to 6 years

  Steve Rickard, Ransom Publishing wrote:
 >but high/low is currently most of what we do.<

 I have the daily digest so this question
 may have been asked and answered by now.

 How did u measure the reading level of the books
 to be 5-6 years?
 That means 'non-reader' to me,
 so what words are included?
 Reading tests which I used started at 6 years.
 Word Readability lowest score is US Grade 1,
 which is 6 years.
 A reading age of 7 used to indicate to me
 that a pupil could decode regular 3-letter words.
 A reading age of 7.5 meant roughly that he could
 decode consonant blends and digraphs,
 and a reading age of 8 meant that
 he could decode the most common vowel digrafs.

 I am saddened that there is any need to provide
 reading books for ages 12 to adult,
 with a reading level of 5 to 6 years.

 -- Jean
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