![]() ![]() With some graded reader books containing as few as 2 words and others extending beyond 20,000, the use of books as a unit of measurement is obviously problematic. Research measuring with the units of whole books and pages has been published as recently as nine years ago (i.e., Hitosugi & Day, 2004 Yamashita, 2004). Throughout the history of extensive reading (ER) research, there has been a steady evolution with regards to the units of measurement used to measure reading amount. Along with discussing the evidence from past research, this study aims to demonstrate the degree to which texts from various sample sets can vary according to the standard word unit compared with a simple word count. The precision provided by standard words increases the measurement consistency of reading amount, allowing for a more accurate analysis of results within and across studies. pages, or words, all of which vary widely depending on the book level, publisher, or type. ![]() This paper will illustrate the degree to which measuring the amount students have read using standard words is more precise than using the number of books. ![]() This paper introduces the standard word unit, which consists of six letter spaces including punctuation and spacing (Carver, 1990), and provides preliminary evidence of the importance of the standard word unit to accurate reading measurement. ![]()
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