Increasing Text Complexity
Article: A Discussion of "Increasing Text Complexity" by Karin Hess and Sue Biggam, 2004
This article includes a summary of the research surrounding quantitative and qualitative measures of text complexity. It offers grade span tables to describe specific ways in which text material generally increase in difficulty over the grade span of grades 1 through high school. The tables include sample texts to benchmark progress at the end of each grade.