Teachers and literacy specialists in districts across the country are rewriting the questions in some of the most commonly used basal readers. You might have heard about this new effort; we wrote ...

Not long ago, we wrote about a project to revamp the teacher questions in the country’s most popular basal readers. The idea, as you might recall, was to use the existing basal readers—since most ...

Readability has traditionally been predicted by tabulating surface structure variables such as vocabulary and sentence length. These criteria are used in determining levels within basal reading series ...