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Re: "readability" of illustrations (was: Readability statistics: is anyone... ?)
Subject:Re: "readability" of illustrations (was: Readability statistics: is anyone... ?) From:Milan Davidovic <shl_ctf -at- yahoo -dot- ca> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:51:16 -0500 (EST)
--- Shira Abel <shira -dot- abel -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I'm still trying to get my head around a second
> grade reading level. Kids
> only learn to read in 1st grade, so that means no
> multi-syllabic words
> whatsoever. See Dick? See Dick type?
It might mean that the instructions be made up mainly
of illustrations. But illustrations can be simple or
complex, so I'm curious whether there's some standard,
rubric, whatever, for grading their comprehensibility.
Maybe something used by textbook publishers, for example...
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