With daily teaching, the teacher helps the child climb the ladder of text difficulty with success. (fountasandpinnell.com)
Teaching reading to poor readers in the intermediate grades: A comparison of text difficulty. (ascd.org)
This model evaluates text difficulty based on linguistic content (the percentage of phonetically regular and high - frequency words) and cognitive load (the number of times new words are introduced and repeated throughout the passage). (gse.harvard.edu)