Readability of Farsi Textbooks in Primary School: First to Sixth Grades

Reading is a skill that Iranian students learn it in the first to sixth grades in primary schools by Farsi textbooks. Readability is one of the qualities should be considered in textbooks, because it helps learners to read and understand effectively. Different researches have been done about textbooks readability, but in this paper all texts in sixth grades of primary school have been investigated. The results of evaluating of texts based on Fog, Fry and Flesh Standard were two folds: 1. according to Flesh Standard, the texts were easy but based on Fry and Fog they were suitable for one or two upper level; 2. there was no standard for texts ordering, because in some grades more difficult texts have been placed prior to easier ones.