Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h1KLgTP03963; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:42:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:42:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20030220153804.00ac4978@coe.tamu.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: hsmith@coe.tamu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8546] reading level of public resources for terrorist attack X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Status: O Content-Length: 1316 Lines: 33 The federal government this week launched a "Ready Campaign" to encourage the public to prepare for possible terrorist attacks. That campaign has instructions for preparedness online at: www.ready.gov FEMA has an online document called "Are You Ready: A Guide to Citizen Preparedness", which can be downloaded in Word or pdf format at: www.fema.gov/areyouready/ Using Microsoft Word's quick and dirty check of readability, I ascertained that the information and instructions at ready.gov are written at a Flesch-Kincaid reading level of grade 9.8. Worse still, the FEMA guide is mostly written at the 11th to 12th grade reading level. I will (with difficulty) refrain from comment on that information. However, I made a suggestion to adult literacy and ESL teachers in Texas via our statewide teachers listserv as to using this information in the classroom. Perhaps some adult learners would want to develop a simpler, more accessible and readable version of the preparedness guide to share with friends, family and other classes as a classroom project. ___________________________________ Harriet Vardiman Smith Librarian Adult Literacy Clearinghouse Texas Center for Adult Literacy & Learning Texas A&M University 800-441-READ website: www-tcall.tamu.edu main office email: tcall@coe.tamu.edu
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