{"id":746,"date":"2013-04-27T16:32:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T08:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2013-04-27T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T10:30:33","slug":"four-easy-steps-to-filter-a-google-search-by-reading-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/27\/four-easy-steps-to-filter-a-google-search-by-reading-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Easy Steps to Filter a Google Search by Reading Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has a strange habit of hiding some of its best features. \u00a0For example, there are a number of powerful filters you can apply to a search with just a few clicks. \u00a0One filter that we are finding especially useful for children is the reading level search.<\/p>\n<p>For our 8-through-11-year-olds we tell them to start with Basic. \u00a0We remind the children that unlike their fiction reading, research texts should be at\u00a0<em>or below<\/em> their reading level. \u00a0What is import is that the text is useful, meaning that it helps answer their research question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B2YjYEHOBVGmV1VKX25KU2xxREE\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Here are the directions<\/a> I created for our students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/sas.edu.sg\/file\/d\/0B2YjYEHOBVGmV1VKX25KU2xxREE\/preview\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nothing special about this presentation I created to keep me on track during the lesson. \u00a0Feel free to make a copy if it is of use to you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1KOJmnKKqOCqwAzvb0LfxwQ_HJFPI6PgBZh1D0PHsKS4\/embed?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" height=\"389\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has a strange habit of hiding some of its best features. For example, there are a number of powerful filters you can apply to a search with just a few clicks. One filter that we are finding especially useful for children is the reading level search.<\/p>\n<p>For our 8-through-11-year-olds we tell them to start [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}