A child's reading ability expressed with reference to an average age at which a comparable ability is found.
twenty per cent of this year's new entrants at 11 had reading ages of 16-plus
his reading age will never be more than 8 or 9
Example sentencesExamples
- But her reading age is far below average and she has a problem with audio sequential skills.
- A study of people in custody found that 20 per cent of 16 and 17-year-olds had a reading age of seven or less.
- School librarians have to be aware that they are catering for children of different reading ages and from backgrounds with different family values.
- He was 17 at the time of the killing and had a reading age of 11.
- Their reading level of English is too low, with an average reading age of eight years.
- ‘The average reading age of most of our parents is between five and nine years,’ says McGow.
- Ability-wise, he is high average, but he has a reading age of just 10.
- The people we deal with have lost their hearing at a young age or were born deaf and the average reading age of such a person is eight years old.
- If this were language we might be thinking about a reading age of below ten years.
- With a reading age of nine 10 years ago, Jeanette Mathers now has her heart set on a PHD.