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What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
@joe_edtech
How complicated is the reading you assigned for your kids last night? Do you know the readability level? If you are like me, you have a ballpark idea based on a scale of "everyone should be fine" to "we might have to talk about some of this more in depth tomorrow." However, there are some free tools out there that can provide you with a little bit better information about digital texts than the aforementioned Taylor method.
Analyze My Writing is an incredibly easy to use tool with a great deal of flexibility to it. You don't even need an account to get started. Simply navigate to analyzemywriting.com, paste any text into the textbox on the page, and Analyze My Writing will give you a breakdown of the text in the following categories:
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| Fry Readability Graph from Analyze My Writing |
- word, sentence, and character count
- word and sentence lengths (with graphs)
- readability scores based on several measures
- customizable graphs for Fry and Raygor readability measures
- punctuation marks
- most frequently used words (with word cloud)
- most common word pairs
Whether you are teaching kids to be conscious, analytical readers, or you are having them peer review their own writing, Analyze My Writing seems like a great piece to include in your discussions.
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Do you use a tool like Analyze My Writing with your students? If so, tell us about it below - along with your successes and challenges.
(PS - For all of my loyal readers - mom - and those of you looking for the series on Google Classroom, they will start next week. An adventure in automotive ownership prevented me from putting the final piece of that series in place this week. I'm sorry for the delay.)
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