| shepline’s Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 10 | |
|---|---|
| Average number of words per sentence: | 21.33 |
| Average number of syllables per word: | 1.49 |
| Total words in sample: | 832 |
| Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern | |
Hrmm… it seems I’ve now got a grade average of 10 – whatever that means? Any of my US friends help me out here?
(sorry, was perusing my old entries looking for something that wasn’t there and found this, thought I’d try it again…!)
Based on the US public school system, I think…
But if you look inside almost any children’s book, where they have all copyright info, they list the reading level, and it looks like “RL:6” or “RL:6.6”
RL:6 indicates that the technical side of the writing is about a 6th grade reading level (11-year-old student) It doesn’t take into account content, so some books also indicate if the content is suggustive of older readers. I typically found though, that books at my RL were to hard…I was reading mostly 2nd and 3rd grade RL books when I was in 4th grade and mostly 4th and 5th grade books when I was in sixth.
Does this make more sense now, or did I just confuse you?
No, I think I’m still with you. So it seems that me and most of journal friends are writing (if this meme is to be believed?) posts that have a reading of about Grades 9 or 10… Hrmm…
9 or 10 is not bad at all…all it means is that a 10th grader should be able to read your journal. It’s based on wordiness and word length. It would be too wordy or too many big words for younger kids.