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Download full textElley, Warwick B. – 1975
A simple, new method for determing the readability level of prose passages in reading material for children is described and discussed. The method, which assigns a value to each noun in selected passages on the basis of its frequency level on standard word-frequency charts, correlated highly in a number of studies with independent estimates of the…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Nouns
Peer reviewedAaron, Ira E.; Hutchinson, Sylvia M. – Reading Teacher, 1993
Describes 60 winners and runners-up of major children's book awards from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Great Britain for 1992. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Books, Children, Childrens Literature
