Reading Text

The subject area that I’ll be doing is Animal science and the content is agriculture based. The textbook to evaluate is Animal Science by James R.  Gillespie. The reading level for the textbook according from WordsCount website was Smog Grade: 9.99. From the website Readability index Calculator it calculated Flesch-Kincaid Grade level  10. On the website of Edit Central the reading level was automated readability index was 45. The Automated readability index was 8.7. The reading level for Flesch-Kincaid grade level was 8.1. The reading level for Coleman-Liau index was 12.5. The reading level for SMOG index was 8.8. The reason I feel like these reading levels are different is because through the years reading has become a subject that is an opinion of difficulty in schools. There are many schools that have higher standards of reading then some other schools have.  For being just a basic knowledge in animal science, I feel like the reading level is perfect for the students. It pretty much at the level that they are in school and some of the scores at a middle school reading level for being a freshmen course.  I feel like the contribute to the difference of the readability level and the assigned grade the textbook is meant for is so that we understand the difficulty of text we assigning to the class. I feel like there a judgment call on if you want higher difficulty of text in the class or having easy text to read in the class. When using the textbook in the classroom, the strategy I would use would be to assign some pages or one chapter to read before class. Then I would ask them questions what they learn and ask see the students if have any question over the text. Another strategy I would use is give them assign some pages or one chapter to read before class. Then have a quiz over the information they learn. I would make sure the quiz was not too hard because know that some of the students have trouble understanding information from the text. Then I would go over the text after the quiz and answer any question that the students might have. In the textbook, I like how they had pictures of all the different breeds of livestock. On each picture of the breed, they would have a brief description over that breed of animal. The book also had great descriptive graphs on grazing systems for livestock.  I feel like this makes it easy to learn each breed and understanding the explanation on how that livestock appearance.