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Measure Text Readability and Writing Skills with Analyze My Writing

@Joe_EdTech & @LisaBerghoff

How complicated is the reading you are assigning this week? Do you know the readability level? If you are like me, you have a ballpark idea and use a scale of "surely they'll get this" to "we might have to talk about some of this more in depth tomorrow." However, there are some free online tools that can provide you with a little bit better information about digital texts than the aforementioned Taylor method.

Analyze My Writing is an incredibly easy to use tool with a great deal of flexibility to it. You don't even need an account to get started. Simply navigate to analyzemywriting.com, paste any text into the textbox on the page, and Analyze My Writing will give you a breakdown of the text in the following categories:

Fry Readability Graph from Analyze My Writing

• word, sentence, and character count
• word and sentence lengths (with graphs)
• readability scores based on several measures
• customizable graphs for Fry and Raygor readability measures
• punctuation marks
• most frequently used words (with word cloud)
• most common word pairs

Whether you are teaching kids to be conscious, analytical readers or you are having them peer review their own writing, Analyze My Writing is an easy way to add data and depth to your discussions.

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Do you use a tool like Analyze My Writing with your students? If so, tell us about it below - along with your successes and challenges.