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Our READABILITY ASSESSMENT takes a
sample of your writing and calculates the number of sentences, words,
syllables, and characters in your sample. Our program takes the output of these
numbers and plugs them into a reading formula to give you the results for
Flesch Reading Ease, Fog Scale Level, and
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level. These three popular formulas will
help you find out the reading level and grade level of your materials and help
you to determine if your audience can read your
materials.
Directions: Paste in a sample of text and click
"ANALYZE." A sufficient sample size consists of 4-5 full sentences;
approximately 100 - 250 words total. For larger texts, such as books, pull 1-2
sample sizes from each chapter.
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1.
The Flesch Reading Ease formula will output a number from
0 to 100 - a higher score indicates easier reading. An average document has a Flesch Reading Ease score between 6 -
70. As a rule of thumb, scores of 90-100 can be understood by
an average 5th grader. 8th and 9th grade students can understand documents with
a score of 60-70; and college graduates can understand documents with a
score of 0-30.
2.
The Fog Scale is similar to the Flesch scale in that it
compares syllables and sentence lengths. A Fog score
of 5 is readable, 10 is hard, 15 is difficult, and 20 is very
difficult. Based on its name, 'Foggy' words are words that contain
3 or more syllables.
3.
The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level outputs a U.S. school grade
level; this indicates the average student in that grade level can read the
text. For example, a score of 7.4 indicates that the text is understood by an
average student in 7th grade.
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