Dr. Marilyn Mudge Professor of Education

Interesting Links on Literacy and Literacy Assessment

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• The Fry Readability Graph, with instructions, can be found through Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators.

• Scholastic's e-Catalog lists thousands of books. You can find a book's interest level, reading level, a brief summary, genre, content topics and more! You can even find out how many words are in the book!

• This site allows you to copy text or type in text and then use three different formulas to determine readability. It is located at theCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills site.

• ESU 3 in Omaha has done some work with fluency. This site has a rubric and even some examples for each level on the rubric at some, but not all, grades.

• Want to check up on your grammar knowledge? Try these interactive grammar quizzes.

• Here you will find information on a computer-based reading assessment called STAR Reading that is coordinated with the Accelerated Reader program.

• Scholastic's Reading Counts! is a program similar to Accelerated Reader. Their computer-based assessment tool is called Scholastic Reading Inventory.