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8-month old G.E. Dishwasher. Harvest
Wheat. Portable/converttble wtth a
maple eutting board top. $300.00 or
best offer. (588-0742)

CARPET (9' 9" X 12') Jute back.
Colour: champagne. Ltke new.
Clean. $100.00 (588-0742)

BOYS' CLOTHING - Sizes 3-5.
25¢-$2.50 OR $10.00 for all (588-0742)

FOR RENT

3-BEDROOM HOUSE on large lot wtth
frutt trees and garden area. Avatl-
able 15 May or 1 June -- Your chotce.
Close to schools, shopping, trans-
portatton. Full basement, garage,
fenced yard. Appltances, drapes,
carpets. $550.00/Mon. (588-0742)

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TO: ALL FACULTY INTERESTED IN
READING LEVEL
FROM:

READING/STUDY SKILLS FACULTY

RE: READABILITY OF TEXTBOOKS

At thts time of year, you may be
examining new textbooks for use tn
the fall. Following ts a quick-to-
use method of determining how dtfft-
cult the matertal ts you expect your
students to read.

SMOG GRADING FORMULA (stmpltfted)

1. Count off 10 sentences at the
beginning, 10 in the middle and
10 at the end of an article.

2. Count every word of 3 or more
syllables in your 30 sentences.

3. Esttmate the square root of the
sum of your btg words.

4. Add 3 to the square root.

Thts equals the grade level.

Remember the student's abiltty to
read pleasure matertal may be
Grade 13 but hts instructtonal
reading level would be Grade 1l.

 

READABILITY OF TEXTBOOKS (Cont'd)

In addition, you may want to consider
one of Rudolph Flesch's reference
charts for determining dtffteulty of
matertal. Stnee reading becomes
harder the longer the sentences and
words, thts chart reflects those
echaractertsttes.

 

Wde. No. Typi- Est. % of
in oyt/ eat. Gr, Bess
Av. 100 Mag. Level Adults
Sent.Words
Very 8.0% Les .C 5 90
Easy Less
Easy 11 Lol PE 6 86
Fairly
Easy 14 169°: SE. i 80
Std. 27 147 D 8 & 75
9
Fatrly
Bert. ad 155 @ 10-12 40
Diff. 26 167. #8 13-16 24
Very
DE. 228. 00 Poe 5: G 4-1/2
more

C-comtes; PF-pulp fiction; SF-slick
fiction; D-digests; @-quality;
A-academic; S-setentific; G-graduate.

Your Reading/Study Skills Faculty
would be happy to dtscuss wtth you,
readability or other concerns you may
have in related toptes.

Al Atkinson
Sandra Carpenter
Sherry Ladbrook

Be oN RS Re A

The Mad Hatter its a D.C. Newsletter
published bt-monthly during the

summer sesston. Deadline for submission
ts Thursday noon. Enqutries, please
eall Liz Glase, local: 263, Surrey <
Campus.