{"id":779,"date":"2018-03-13T17:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T17:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/?page_id=779"},"modified":"2018-03-20T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T14:27:47","slug":"decodability-analysis-tool","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/decodability-analysis-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Decodability Analysis: an Experimental Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Decodability analysis to guide revision<\/h2>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find below a &#8220;tool&#8221; for doing a decodability analysis of texts in terms of the TAP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/phonics-levels\/\">phonics levels<\/a>. This tool is <strong><em>experimental and in development<\/em><\/strong> and shared here &#8220;as is&#8221;, without warranty of any kind, express or implied.\u00a0 Nonetheless, the results can highlight words in a text that may be above a target TAP level.\u00a0 We use it to guide revision of our decodable novels (aka levelled phonics readers) for older learners.<\/p>\n<h2>Completely Private<\/h2>\n<p>You may also enjoy reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/decodability-tool-announcement\/\">this blog post which outlines how the tool works and was built.<\/a>\u00a0It is probably important to mention that the analysis is done in the browser and our server <em>doesn&#8217;t collect or even see<\/em> the text you enter in the tool.<\/p>\n<p>Again, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/phonics-levels\/\">phonics progression<\/a> used in our decodable novels (aka levelled phonics readers) for older beginning readers is presented in detail here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/phonics-levels\/\">phonics levels<\/a>. The tool takes the text from the text area and displays it below the text area such that <em><strong>words above the target level will stand out and be larger the higher their level is above the target level<\/strong><\/em>. The result are styled as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>words at or below the specified level: dimly visible.<\/li>\n<li>words not found in the tool&#8217;s word list: yellow, italics<\/li>\n<li>some frequent words (dimmed, italics):\u00a0<em>are, be, do, has, he, his, i, is, of, one, said, she, the, then, they, to, too, two, was, were, when, who, why<\/em><\/li>\n<li>lastly, as this tool is still being developed and the upper levels of TAP are not yet carved in stone, there are GPC&#8217;s (grapheme-phoneme correspondences) that have simply been placed in the &#8220;??&#8221; level.\u00a0 Words that require these GPC&#8217;s get their normal highlighting but are also in italics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Decodability Analysis Tool in All Its (Beta) Glory<\/h2>\n<p>[decodability-tool]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.5em;\"><em>Version 1.1.\u00a0 Last updated March 20, 2018.<br \/>Moved spelling-sound pairs from Level ??<br \/>Added &#8220;show level&#8221; option<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decodability analysis to guide revision You&#8217;ll find below a &#8220;tool&#8221; for doing a decodability analysis of texts in terms of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}