- It is formula used to calculate the US grade level required to understand a piece of text.
- Its a graph based formula with sentences and syllables as variables.
Procedure:
- Select three one-hundred-word passages from near the beginning, middle and end of the book. Skip all proper nouns.
- Count the total number of sentences in each hundred-word passage. Average these three numbers.
- Count the total number of syllables in each hundred-word sample.
- Count every syllable over one in each word and add 100. Average the total number of syllables for the three samples.
- Plot the average number of sentences per hundred words and the average number of syllables per hundred words. Most plot points fall near the heavy curved line. Perpendicular lines ark off approximate grade level areas.
