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However, in order to justify whether a text is really useful, a further researcher could provide information pertaining to the readability and the generic structure potential of the text. This, somehow, creates a difficulty on the part of the students. Pedagogically, the results imply that the texts may easily be comprehended by Semarang sixth graders, although, some of the reading texts are written in complex sentences. Buku Bahasa Inggris Sd Kelas 1 Kurikulum 2013 The results are: (1) the LD index is 0.54 (2) the GI index is 1.19 and (3) both LD and GI indices are significantly low. The data of this study are all the texts of the textbooks presumably being used by Semarang sixth graders. Abstract The study on lexical density (LD) and grammatical intricacy (GI) is aimed at construing: (1) the LD index of the texts of English textbooks for sixth graders (2) the GI index of the texts of English textbooks for sixth graders and (3) whether both indices are tolerable.