Readability : its past, present, and future / Beverley L. Zakaluk, S. Jay Samuels, editors.- - Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, c1988. - xii, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographies.

The beginning years / Jeanne S. Chall -- The formative years / George R. Klare -- Assigning grade levels without formulas / Alice Davison -- Determining difficulty levels of text written in languages other than English / Annette T. Rabin -- Writeability, the principles of writing for increased comprehension / Edward Fry -- New ways of assessing text difficulty / Marilyn R. Binkley -- Toward a new approach to predicting text comprehensibility / Beverley L. Zakaluk and S. Jay Samuels.

0872077950 (pbk.)


Textbooks--Readability.
Readability (Literary style)
Reading comprehension.

LB3045.8 / R43 1988