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7 ;"{Press ENTER to go on}":
2 q=q+f+d*10
2 READER tO
2 ;"{Press [C] to copy this page, [ENTER] to go on}"
2 ;"{Press ENTER to go on}"
2 ;" READY ";
1 w;" Word";:
1 w$="years":
1 w$="months"
1 w$="month":
1 w$="at this level by:":
1 w$="Your reading score is":
1 w$="The reading age is":
1 w$="Reading Check":
1 w$="Reader"
1 w$="Readability Check":
1 w$="Menu":
1 w$="Help Reading Progress":
1 w$="Below 5 years"
1 w$="Above 15 years"
1 s;" Sentence";:
1 s1>(g*c)-8
1 s1=s/w*100
1 prog
1 p008?700000p
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1 Reader R
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1 ;"{Press [W] for common word list, [ENTER] to go on}"
1 ;"{Press [I] for Instructions and Information, [ENTER] to start}"
1 ;"{Press [ENTER] to go on}":
1 ;"{Press ENTER to start}"
1 ;"{Press ENTER to go back}"
1 ;"{Press E to end and go back}":
1 ;"{Press 1,2 or 3}"
1 ;"so far.";
1 ;"is two simple programs that let you test a child's word reading ability and assess a book's difficulty so that it can be matched to them."
1 ;"by M.Long, Norfolk Educational Psychologist,
1 ;"and show readability";
1 ;"[R] for readability check info. [ENTER] to go on."
1 ;"You can either"'''"1) Assess a child's reading score, or"''"2) Translate the last reading score into a reading age, or"''"3) Check the readability of their reading book.";
1 ;"STOP TAPE";
1 ;"Readability so far:";
1 ;"Press:"'"[T] for reading test info.":
1 ;"Press L for words right (A)";
1 ;"Press L for each letter (A)";
1 ;"PLEASE WAIT,";
1 ;"P for words wrong (Q)";
1 ;"P after each word (Q)";
1 ;"NO READING SCORE YET";
1 ;"LOADING"
1 ;"ENTER to end a sentence";
1 ;"An analysis of reading progress for school aged pupils."
1 ;"0 to delete a letter (1)";
1 ;" years";:
1 ;" READER ";
1 ;" Another 75 makes two thirds:"
1 ;" ";r;" ";
1 ;" Matching the book to the child's ability,"''" Encouraging frequent, silent, fast reading,"''" Talking about the content of books just read."
1 ;" Encouraging the use of letter sounds,"''" Developing a sight vocabulary of common words,"''" Encouraging logical guesses from cues,"''" Making reading enjoyable.":
1 ;" Encouraging specialist reading interests,"''" Training up higher level reading study skills,"''" Taking an interest in your child's interests.":
1 ;" An educational utility program, that lets you assess a child's reading ability and the difficulty of their book."
1 ;" {Press ENTER to go on}":
1 ;" FINISHED ";
1 ;" COMMON WORD LIST"'''" 25 words make up just less thanone half of all the words experienced by early readers. In frequency order, these are:"
1 ;" ";
1 ;" ":
1 ''"the and I a it"''"to is was in my"''"he we of on go"''"went with that have had"''"some at they when for"
1 ''" You can ignore commas, quotation marks, hyphens e.t.c. The main idea is to use the sentence as a unit of continuousmeaning and the readability is calculated from word and sentence lengths."
1 ''" You can also gauge a child's actual reading progress by checking a book they can just read well - the readability willthen be equivalent to their reading age."
1 ''" Treat numbers and abbreviationsas you would letters."
1 ''" Technical manuals, Maths books,Poetry, e.t.c. are special casesdue to their content and you cannot get a meaninful result very easily."
1 ''" Tap L/A for each letter, P/Q atthe end of each word and press ENTER at the end of each sentence - shown by .?:;"
1 ''" Readability cannot be a precisemeasurement and therefore the result is only given to the nearest year and covers the range half a year either side ofthe figure given."
1 ''" It is also interesting to look at more general materials e.g. newspapers, cereal packets, e.t.c. The readability of this Instruction/Information text is more than 15 yrs. so if you've got this far then at least your reading is above this level!"
1 '" The word list is derived and ordered according to frequency and phonic complexity (how easy it is to sound out). The words used are not used in other, similar tests although scores onthis test will be very similar to those on others."
1 '" The second program enables you to rapidly assess the reading difficulty of any text from 5 to15 years, by simply tapping three keys."
1 '" The first program presents yourchild with a series of words of graded difficulty. It automatically homes in on the level that needs to be tested and presents you with an overallanalysis of reading progress. "
1 '" The best thing generally is to look at the total words rightscore and to simply tell them that they're doing well."
1 '" Only count words right when they are given the correct pronunciation and without a lot of tries. Working words out is allowed."
1 '" If you test too often, teach the test words or score too leniently, you will of course invalidate the score."
1 '" After a run of falures, the program will stop and display a reading score - the total numberof words right."
1 '" A particular reading age means that your child is reading at the level of the average child of that age. No test can be completely accurate and there isquite a wide variation in development. A delay of up to two years is quite common."
1 "when","no","cut","hot","as","our","house","soon","flower","bird","sitting"
1 "the","at","in","to","me","am","had","card","two","yes","just"
1 "something","throwing","plate","known","pancake","change","plaster","beware","object","voice","weather"
1 "ruler","mortal","cylinder","telephone","luggage","bulletin","unusual","fringe","belief","tyre","translation"
1 "opaque","coroner","eccentric","unique","sequel","nebulous","coalition","ascetic","haughty","nausea","contagion"
1 "one","then","said","play","she","there","are","you","out","got","me","home","not","his","up","her","so","will","day","little","am","come"
1 "obtain","rescue","charge","worm","crayon","quite","serious","guest","always","series","barb"
1 "get","all","our","came","but","him","house","mother","this","man","saw","daddy","see","were","very","down","two","night","school","put","like","time"
1 "ear","fair","plant","think","heap","inside","dragon","twin","write","lunch","return"
1 "circus","shop","brick","hen","bad","left","rice","before","dish","now","fight"
1 "campaign","urge","subtle","universal","enigma","area","choir","siege","ultimate","fatigue","institution"
1 "back","be","has","girl","them","after","did","walk","last","do","boy","can","call","mummy","if","off","live","look","as","sister","big","made","into","would","too","from","us","work","once","dinner","an"
1 " or more"
1 " or less"
1 " WHEN TO STOP: As you're getting a running average of the readability, that's up to you. What you're looking for is a steady figure and this generally happens after3 or more sentences."
1 " USE THIS PROGRAM to analyse reading materials so that they can be matched to achild's abilities."
1 " THE READING TEST starts off by telling you which keys to press when your child gets a word right (L/A) or wrong(P/Q). Sit your child directly in front of a well tuned and adjusted television (screen size is not critical, picture quality is)."
1 " THE READING AGE should not be shown to your child unless you are sure that they can cope wih it. If their reading age is low then they may get discouraged. If it is high then they may get intolerably big-headed!"
1 " HELP READING PROGRESS by using the ideas suggested. Bear in mind that reading is a complex, integrated skill and that the best way to improve reading is to do a lot of it."
1 " x
1 " READABILITY CHECK"
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