Friday, 29 June 2012

How readable is YOUR writing?

Who can read what you write? Storytoolz have a great "tool" for checking the grade level and language stats in your writing. You can reach an even bigger audience by simplifying your writing. To check US/UK/AUS/NZ grades/ages click on this chart:

storytoolz.com/readability/index

Students could check extracts from their essays, stories, notes, transactional writing, etc.

This blog post could be read by US grade 4 and above. The word usage is highlighted below:


Readability Statistics of Entered Text




Reading Levels

Sentence Information


Word Usage

Number of to be verbs0
Number of auxiliary verbs2
Number of conjunctions1 (2% of words)
Number of pronouns6 (13% of words)
Number of prepositions4 (9% of words)
Number of nominalizations1

Sentence Beginnings

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