Readability Formulas: What's Out, What's In?.
Timothy C. Standal · The Reading Teacher · 1978
READABILITY formulas are of inestimable value in m tching reading material to the ability of a given child. Our knowledge of a child's reading level based on formal or informal measures allows us to direct her/him to materials he/she can read without frustration. That is, such direction is possible if we have graded materials on hand. Or is it? Nearly any teacher who has used one or more readability formulas has probably come away feeling vaguely dissatisfied. There's always the child who should have been able to read