... . To make sure our book, A Bad Case Of The Stripes, is on a third grade reading level, we tested it against Fry's readability graph. Edward Fry's readability chart analyzes a 100 word passage of the book and breaks it down into syllables and short sentences. From this you are able to match it with the corresponding grade level (http://school. discover.com). Fry ... 's readability graph states that for third graders the average 100 word passage should contain 9.2 sentences and have 124 syllables (http://school.discover.com). Even though we will be reading the story to them, it is still imp...

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• Grade Level: High School

... learn things that are outside of your house; you might see it from someone that you don't even know practicing their sense of violence to someone else. As in the passage there were many times, when they would learn their violent behavior in the streets. You would just think that if they are doing it you think its okay for you ... death of a crime of murder, but what he did was wrong and it took away someones life because of what you learned from somebody else. I believe that education is the key in eliminating violence. If you didn't know anything, then you wouldn't know if what you're ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... offers few opportunities to learn new words through multiple encounters because the needed repetitions simply do not occur. Even when texts are long, only a small number of words meet the key criteria of being both uncommon and much repeated. For instance, in all 21,000 words of the simplified version of The Mayor of Casterbridge, we were able to identify only ... read the same text over and over again is less clear. We have seen intermediate ESL learners show considerable persistence in a language lab activity that required them to listen to a passage, read it out loud on tape, and rep...

• Word Count: 7274
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate