To calculate a grade level score:

1. Randomly select three separate 100 word passages. (Count every word including proper nouns, initializations, and numerals.)
2. Count the number of sentences in each 100 word sample (estimate to nearest tenth).
3. Count the number of syllables in each 100 word sample. (Each numeral is a syllable. For example, 2007 is 5 syllables -- two-thou-sand-se-ven -- and one word.)
4. Plot the average sentence length and the average number of syllables on the graph.
5. The area in which it falls is the approximate grade

Common readability formulas

Main article: Readability test

In alphabetical order:

• Automated Readability Index
• Coleman-Liau
• Flesch Reading Ease^[7]
• Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level. This uses use the same core measures as Flesch Reading Ease (word length and sentence length). But the two measures have different weighting factors, so the results of the two tests do not always correlate: if one analyzes two texts using both measures, one text may get a more favorable score on the Reading Ease test and the other may get the better score on the Grade Level test.
• Fry Readability Formula
• Gunning Fog
• HIReA^[8] (Health Information Readability Analyzer)
• SMOG

There are many computer programs for measuring the readability of text. Some are available on the World Wide Web, and some of these are specifically designed to measure the readability of Web pages.

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In order to be effective writers children need to possess the following attributes:

· A wide ranging vocabulary.

· Phonemic and phonological awareness so they can recognise phonemes and syllables within words.

· Be able to form the letters of the alphabet comfortably

· Develop the skills to make consistent spelling.

· Have a concept of writing: that writing conveys messages written in words and writers choose words and put them in order to form sentences; that sentences express ideas that can be linked together and expressed over a collection of sentences.