ABSTRACT
Educators have long been engaged in an ongoing quest to find reading materials written at an appropriate level of difficulty for their students-that is, texts with acceptable readability. The Literacy Dictionary (Harris & Hodges, 1995) defines readability as “the ease of comprehension because of style of writing” (p. 203), while the Greenwood Dictionary of Education (Collins & O’Brien, 2003) defines it as “the quality and clarity of a piece of written work. Writing that can be understood by those for whom it is written” (p. 295).
