During the meeting in Jan 2025, Sheila read from “A Win for a Child and His Cat” and asked if the story would be suitable for children but also enjoyable for adults. The group seemed to think middle grade readers over age 9 would be right. Readability checkers online were recommended, but some of these require you to create an account or pay after a certain number of uses. They also have lots of banner ads, so users should be careful where they click. :
- https://app.readable.com/text/
- https://hemingwayapp.com/readability-checker
- https://readabilityformulas.com/readability-scoring-system.php
- https://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp
- https://www.wordcalc.com/readability/
- Common Sense Media gives useful information
- I’ve not tested this, but one member said if you select the word count option in the Google Docs tools menu you will find three indications of the reading level of the document you’re creating.
- In more recent versions of Word, there is a readability and accessibility checker https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-your-document-s-readability-and-level-statistics-85b4969e-e80a-4777-8dd3-f7fc3c8b3fd2