How to check if a text is the right level
Standing in a bookshop, the available methods for choosing a book are the pictures, the long words, and a child who says yes to anything with a dragon on it. This film shows the Text Checker: paste any text or photograph a worksheet, and get a SESL© score, a CEFR level, and a rewrite if it is too hard.
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Every parent has stood in a bookshop wondering:
can my child actually read this?
The available methods are: the pictures, the long words,
and a child who says yes to anything with a dragon on it.
Eight pounds ninety-nine, and a coin toss.
Teachers face the same question with every worksheet they hand out.
So StorySparkle measures it instead.
SESL© is our reading-level engine —
a hundred-plus measurements, the same answer every time.
Text Checker puts it in your hands.
Paste any English text.
Or photograph the page — we read it for you.
Pick the age you are aiming at.
Press Analyse.
An SESL© score, a CEFR level, and a plain
answer: too easy, about right, or too hard.
Too hard?
One click rewrites the same passage easier, then scores it again.
Too easy goes the other way.
Teachers — it works on your own worksheets.
That is, reliably, the first thing anyone tries.
Next time you are in that bookshop,
you will know before you buy.
Check a text free at storysparkle-dot-org — no card needed.
Keep the coin.
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