![]() ![]() In two of my articles ‘The Average Sentence Length’ and ‘Syllable, Word and Sentence Length’, I have come to the conclusion that the average sentence length has 17 words, 29 syllables and 87 letters. This means that the average child will be able to pronounce correctly about 80 of the words in the Schonell Reading Test. ![]() reads at the middle-school level, roughly at the 8 th grade level.” ( Smart Language, 2007). And William DuBay states: “The average adult in the U.S. Here is the 10 th guideline of Martin Cutts: “Remember the average reading age of the population: about 13 years.” ( Oxford Guide To Plain English, 3 rd edition, 2009). Martin Cutts and William DuBay are agreed on the average reading age/grade. If C is the number of words correctly pronounced by a child, then RA = (C/10) + 5 and RG = C/10. The Schonell Reading Test consisting of a list of 100 words from the monosyllabic ‘tree’ to the polysyllabic ‘idiosyncracy’ helps evaluate the RA as well as the RG of a child. ![]() Both are related concepts tied by this conversion formula: RA = RG + 5. ( Age (RA) and Reading Grade (RG) are measures of literacy in the U.K. ![]()
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