Methodology- 157 Words

I have selected a page from one book in Levels 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the Ginn’s New Reading 360 collection. From here, I have analysed each page, looking at the language to see how it develops. In particular, I have looked at; the semantic choices, grammar, pragmatics, graphology, phonology and lexical frameworks. In terms of the graphology, I have split each of the pages into 9 quadrants to determine the percentage of each page that is filled by illustrations instead of writing. In order to get fair results, I have done this with each page in the story that the example page has come from. In a similar fashion, I have looked at the average number of words per sentence, as well as the general number of syllables per word. With all my data collected, I grouped the results in order to determine whether there was an increase in features that suggested a higher difficulty. 

Introduction- 95 Words

I am going to analyse the different levels of reading skill in a selection of books from Ginn’s New Reading 360 collection. I expect to see an increase in the complexity of the language, structure and grammar. Also, the page will be dominated more by writing than illustration as the levels progress in difficulty. Similarly, I expect to see an escalation in terms of the complexity and sophistication of the semantic choices and that the new vocabulary being introduced with be more advanced in terms of phonology as well as the word structure and purpose.