Educators
Features for Educators
Choosing the right materials for your students can be an arduous task. This is especially true when determining whether these learning materials are too difficult to read. With Readability Studio, you can determine the reading level of your materials, as well as guidance to make them easier to read.
Tests are also available for determining which materials are a good fit for second-language students. Dolch sight words and the McAlpine EFLAW® test are provided for both young English and ESL (English as a Second Language) readers. Likewise, the graphical test FRASE is available for assisting SSL (Spanish as a Second Language) readers.
Sight words
A suite of Dolch statistics and graphs is available, which is useful for educators and writers who work with young readers. The program provides a breakdown of Dolch words that you are using (and not using) in your materials. This enables writers to see how they can improve their practice materials. Likewise, educators can use this to determine which materials are appropriate for sight word practice.
Grammar tools
Along with readability tests, grammar checks are also available, such as misspellings, double words, and clichés. These issues are shown highlighted in your document for easy review. They are also aggregated into sortable lists to give a general overview of any problems in the document.
Visualizations
Numerous graphs are provided to help present your results. This includes graphical tests (e.g., Fry and Raygor), as well as a bar charts, box plots, heat maps, and word clouds to visualize word and sentence statistics.
Detailed statistics
Numerous sentence and word statistics are provided.
Difficult words & sentences
Lists of difficult words and sentences are broken down by category and can be searched, sorted, printed, and exported. A separate list for each type of difficult word (e.g., 3+ syllables) is included, as well as a list of overly-long sentences.
Flexibility
Many options, such as how documents are analyzed and how the results are displayed, are customizable.
Document support
Numerous document types are supported, including Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® PowerPoint, OpenOffice, HTML, RTF, text files, and more.