Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
6.3
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
9421
Points per Word
0.000212
Page Count
44
Points per Page
0.045455
Description
This guide to language takes readers on a trip of the tongue, exploring how languages -- spoken, written and sign -- originate and change over time.