Jeanne Chall · readability · Should Textbooks Challenge Students

Why can’t children read… Dickens?

This post arose out of a tweet I read this morning which said that ‘a friend had to read the first page of Oliver Twist aloud to university students because it was too difficult for them’. Thinking back to the time I was teaching literature courses at university, I also found that my students in… Continue reading Why can’t children read… Dickens?