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Direct linkAllington, Richard L.; McCuiston, Kimberly; Billen, Monica – Reading Teacher, 2015
The CCSS framework indicates more difficult texts are to be used with students. However, the rationale for increasing text difficulty, decreasing text difficulty, is unsupported by the research that shows texts have been increasing in difficulty for at least 50 years. Oral reading accuracy is a traditional method of estimating text difficulty. For…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Difficulty Level, Oral Reading, Accuracy
