Rudolf Franz Flesch (8 May 1911 – 5 October 1986) was an Austrian-born naturalized American author (noted for his book Why Johnny Can't Read), and also...

Reading Ease test should have a lower score on the Grade-Level test. Rudolf Flesch devised the Reading Ease evaluation; somewhat later, he and J. Peter...

About It is a 1955 book-length exposé of American reading education by Rudolf Flesch. It was an immediate bestseller for 37 weeks and became an educational...

readers. Feld also believed in drilling writers in Flesch's clear-writing principles. Both Rudolf Flesch and Robert Gunning worked extensively with newspapers...

player Josef Flesch (1781–1839), Moravian writer Rudolf Flesch (1911–1986), creator of Flesch Reading Ease test and co-creator of the Flesch-Kincaid Readability...

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German: [hœs]; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the...

replace phonics. Others advocated for a return to phonics, such as Rudolf Flesch in his book Why Johnny Can't Read (1955). The whole-word method received...

Mühendislik Fakültesi Fen ve Mühendislik Dergisi (in Turkish). 12 (3): 49–62. Rudolf Flesch. "Chapter 2: Let's Start With the Formula". Retrieved 29 August 2023...

Abraham Feinberg, 87, American rabbi, activist and singer, cancer. Rudolf Flesch, 75, Austrian-born American readability expert and author (Why Johnny...

Cerf, Mignon G. Eberhart, Paul Engle, Bergen Evans, Clifton Fadiman, Rudolf Flesch, Phyllis McGinley, J. D. Ratcliff, Rod Serling, Max Shulman, Red Smith...

vocabulary and for its grammatical constraints. In 1944, readability expert Rudolf Flesch published an article in Harper's Magazine, "How Basic is Basic English...

advocated for a whole-word method of teaching reading to replace phonics. Rudolf Flesch advocated for a return to phonics in his book Why Johnny Can't Read...

word not on that list to be difficult. The formula was inspired by Rudolf Flesch's Flesch–Kincaid readability test which used word-length to determine how...

author Rudolf Flesch concluded that the whole-word (look-say) method was ineffective because it lacked phonics training. In addition, Flesch was critical...

Lorge and Rudolf Flesch, who became leaders in the plain-language movement. In 1975, Flesch collaborated with J. Peter Kincaid to create the Flesch-Kincaid...

Watson, and Stephen Krashen. Widely known whole-language critics include Rudolf Flesch, Louisa Cook Moats, G. Reid Lyon, James M. Kauffman, Phillip Gough (co-creator...

had also read the best-selling 1955 book Why Johnny Can't Read by Rudolf Flesch. Flesch, like Hersey, criticized primers as boring but also criticized them...

studies, he pursued further training in the violin privately with Carl Flesch in Paris and Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Vienna. He later co-founded the Lucerne...

against "word method" culminated in a 1955 book Why Johnny Can't Read by Rudolf Flesch, in which he condemned this method for "treating children as if they...

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Eberhart, John Caples, J. D. Ratcliff, Mark Wiseman, Max Shulman, Rudolf Flesch, Red Smith, and Rod Serling. The advertising drew sharp criticism and...

Don'ts & Maybes of English Usage by Theodore M. Bernstein On Writing Well by William Zinsser How to Be Brief: An Index to Simple Writing by Rudolf Flesch....

This philosophy came under attack in the late 1950s, largely due to Rudolf Flesch's book Why Johnny Can't Read. This was a scathing condemnation of the...

tell a joke with sufficient skill to cause people to laugh. F Flesch–Kincaid Rudolf Flesch, J. Peter Kincaid Used to measure how difficult it is to understand...

Österreicher) (1905-1996), poet and translator Fritz Brainin (1913-1992), poet Rudolf Flesch (1911-1986), naturalized American writer noted for his book Why Johnny...

between emotion, thought and experience. In 1955, the publication of Rudolf Flesch's Why Johnny Can't Read leveled criticism of reading programs at the...

Ella Cara Deloria (B.S. 1915), novelist and Yankton Sioux ethnologist Rudolf Flesch (PhD 1955), author who inspired Dr. Seuss to write The Cat in the Hat...

Archived 2013-10-23 at the Wayback Machine More about Gobbledygook, Rudolf FleschPublic Administration Review Vol. 5, No. 3 (Summer, 1945), pp. 240–244...

Libraries: a Compend Filing Code for Catalogs of 120 to 2000 Trays. Rudolf Flesch (forward). William-Frederick Press. Moakley, Gertrude (1966). The Tarot...

time; in Hazlehurst, Mississippi (poisoned 1938).[citation needed] Rudolf Flesch, American educator whose 1955 book Why Johnny Can't Read successfully...