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                                    An Introduction to Readability Levels<\/span>

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I began homeschooling twenty-seven years ago this fall when Ray and I taught my younger sister (who was in eighth grade at the time) in our home. During my first several years of homeschooling, I used early readers when my children were first learning to read, but I did not care for \u201creaders\u201d for older children. I always felt that abridged or excerpted stories were inferior\u2014and that children should read whole books. <\/span>

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This worked wonderfully for my first two (the ones who learned to read at age eight and nine). They didn\u2019t like abridgements and excerpts very much anyway\u2014and could easily read a couple of chapter books a week from ages ten and up. (I should note that they are both real literature buffs as adults, and our son teaches literary analysis of many novels to homeschooled students every semester. All of that reading really paid off!)<\/span>

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Then along came our third child, who begged for everything that I did not think was \u201cbest\u201d for learning\u2014workbooks (the more, the merrier, in her opinion); readers with excerpts and short stories; tons of what I had thought were useless pages of worksheets and coloring pages; and more. She was a different type of learner than Joshua and Kayla had been\u2014and desired different learning tools. <\/span>

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So I began my hunt for \u201colder\u201d readers\u2014readers for children beyond the phonetically-controlled ones that I had utilized to teach reading. I found many that I liked\u2014and actually used some of them to read aloud to the kids since we found the stories and excerpts interesting and fun. They even caused my kids to go on and read entire books for themselves that they might have otherwise not known about or read (after reading an excerpted portion in their readers).<\/span>

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So\u2026the moral of this story? Every child is different. Each child has his own learning style, likes, dislikes, etc. And we need to cater to those as much as possible in their learning. (More on later readers and building a love for reading\/maintaining skills, etc. for older kids next week.)<\/span>

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In order to choose reading materials for your children, a basic knowledge of readability levels will be a great help. I will detail that in the next few posts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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