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January 19, 2011

What can I read if I know this many words?

What can I read if I know this many words?

Reading a text depends on knowing at least 95% of its words, so...


CINDY: No we won't Ian, one way or another, we're gonna get some help.
ROBBIE: Told you the dog would be back.


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Script of informal
spoken conversation

TV Sit-com

"IAN: Well, if not, just have to struggle on, won't we?
CINDY: No we won't Ian, one way or another, we're gonna get some help.
ROBBIE: Told you the dog would be back.
IAN: No one's gonna hurt ya this time, I swear it.
ROBBIE: Dog came back.
ALAN: Yeah, I can see.
ROBBIE: So, what do you want to do now?
ALAN: Give him back again.
ROBBIE: We can't do that, Alan!
ALAN: Why do you think he runs away in the first place?
ROBBIE: Because his owner kicks him around--that's why.
ALAN: What do ya mean?
ROBBIE: Well, look at his back.
ALAN: I never noticed these before.."
K1 =96.00%
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2000
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K1 - K2

Graded Reader
Bookworm
Level 1

Elephant Man

"My name is Dr Frederick Treves. I am a doctor at the London Hospital. One day in 1884, I saw a picture in the window of a shop near the hospital. I stopped in front of the shop and looked at the picture. At first I felt interested, then I felt angry, then afraid. It was a horrible, ugly picture. There was a man in the picture, but he did not look like you and me. He did not look like a man. He looked like an elephant. I read the writing under the picture. It said, 'Come in and see the Elephant Man. 2 pence.' I opened the door and went in. There was a man in the shop. He was a dirty man in an old coat with a cigarette in his mouth. 'What do you want?' he asked. 'I'd like to see the elephant man, please,' I said." K1 =92.62%
K2 =04.03%
= 96.65%
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3000
word families

K1 - K3

Graded Reader
Bookworm
Level 6

Cry Freedom

" The road out of East London to the north gradually rises from the coast to grassy hills, and then descends again to the valley of the Buffalo River, about sixty kilometres from East London. Only whites live in King William's Town itself, of course. Woods, in his white Mercedes, drove through the black township, a few kilometres from the centre of the town, on his way to the address Dr Ramphele had given him. The houses were small and miserable, but the surrounding hills, covered with acacia trees, were beautiful. Woods drove on, surprised that he was meeting a banned person at an address in the white town. He found the quiet, wide street with trees on both sides. The address was an old church, with small trees around it, and bits of broken fence. Woods parked across the street and stared at it for a moment. He noticed two security policemen under a tree not far away. They were obviously Biko's 'minders' and Woods smiled and waved at them. Biko needed watching, Woods believed, because he aimed to create separate black organizations, which Woods thought dangerous. " K1 =87.93%
K2 =05.75%
K3 =02.30%
= 95.98%
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4000
word families

K1 - K4

Mid-Quality Newspaper Treatment
of medical subject

Montreal Gazette, 15/1/07

" The Canadian Down Syndrome Society is right to be concerned about a proposal that all pregnant women be routinely tested to determine whether the fetuses they're carrying have Down syndrome. The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada no doubt has the best of intentions in recommending the program, and even the Down Syndrome Society has no problem with expectant mothers getting all the information they need to make decisions about their pregnancy. The key word, however, is 'all.' The society fears - and with reason - that doctors are far too quick to highlight the burdens of raising a child with Down syndrome without ever acknowledging the joys and rewards that such children can bring to a family. Doctors, the society says, never fail to mention the heart problems and premature dementia that can come with Down syndrome, but often ignore other, more positive, aspects of the condition. What's also often left out are the positive prognoses. Most children with Down syndrome go on to live full and fulfilling lives." K1 =83.04%
K2 =05.85%
K3 =02.92%
K4 =04.68%
=96.49
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5000
word families

K1 - K5

Academic textbook on
animal conservation

In Schmitt & Schmitt, Ch 7, Unit 25

" Another option to save the African elephant would be an exclusive marketing scheme in which ivory was traded. The core of such a system would have to be an agreement between exporting countries who are committed to managing their herds at sustainable levels and importing countries who were both willing and able to enforce import controls requiring them to accept ivory from approved exporting countries alone. Ivory could be taken for registration to a single point of export controlled and supervised by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The CITES center would accept ivory only from states deemed to have met strict conservation criteria. Once exported, ivory samples would be randomly tested at regular intervals to determine their place of origin. Ivory from anywhere other than approved states would be confiscated and the importing nation fined in the first instance, and suspended from the scheme in the case of repeated offenses. This scheme might start small initially, and later be expanded if successful. Such expansion could be implemented by a resolution within the CITES framework. One problem is that actual enforcement of such schemes is by no means automatic. Considerations like the corruption or powerlessness of officials, ignorance, and apathy must be fully addressed in the program's implementation for them to be successful." K1 =70.83%
K2 =10.19%
K3 =06.94%
K4 =04.63%
K5 =04.17%
=96.76%
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6000
word families

K1 - K6

High end
weekly news magazine - feature

Economist, Jan 19, 2007

" MORE magazines documenting the ups and, better, the downs of celebrities are sold in Britain than anywhere else, relative to the size of its population. The reasons given for the countrys vast appetite for celebrity vary from the historical (Brits like having a class system and have created a new one on the embers of the old) to the sociological (people no longer know their neighbours well enough and so gossip about famous lives instead). The result is benign, most of the time. British celebrity culture is tolerant: ethnic minorities and homosexuals feature prominently. And it is democratic: no discernible talent is needed to enter the aristocracy of celebrity. Not this week, though, when the unpleasant, even racist, treatment of Shilpa Shetty, an Indian actress, on Celebrity Big Brother, a reality-television show, has been at the top of news bulletins. The format of the programme resembles a performance at the Circus Maximus, though with the lions given the week off. The contestants live together in a house fitted out with cameras. The winner is the last one left in, after some have walked out in dismay and others have been voted off by viewers." K1 =79.27%
K2 =07.25%
K3 =02.59%
K4 =02.59%
K5 =02.07%
K6 =03.11%
=96.88%
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7000
word families

K1 - K7

High end
weekly news magazine - review

Economist, Jan 19, 2007

" The key to understanding Lord Black, who is set to go on trial next March, is that for him business has never been more than the means to an end. It was a lesson he absorbed as a boy from his wealthy and cynical father, who taught him that greed, arrogance and unscrupulousness were the way of the world. At the same time, the precocious young Conrad learned from his passion for history that real heroes were permitted to flout rules designed by the mediocre to shackle them. Mr Bower portrays Lady Black as every bit as much of a chancer as the husband over whom she still exerts a powerful hold, both sexual and intellectual. Marrying for the fourth time at the age of 51, the haughty, but always insecure, Ms Amiel believed she had married a man of unlimited means. Given free rein to an extravagance she admitted has no bounds, Lady Black encouraged her husband to befriend New York's super-rich elite. With their four houses in choice locations, their armies of butlers and the pair of private jets that stood ready to whisk them to the next celebrity party or shopping expedition, they were accepted at their own valuation." K1 =81.50%
K2 =04.00%
K3 =02.00%
K4 =03.00%
K5 =01.00%
K6 =02.50%
K7 =01.50%
=95.50%

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What can I read if I know this many words? Reading a text depends on knowing at least 95% of its words, so... CINDY: No we won't Ian, one way or another, we're gonna get some help. ROBBIE: Told you the dog would be back. via lextutor.ca ...... Read MORE » on Dogmeat