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 the California 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.