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August, Diane; Artzi, Lauren; Barr, Christopher – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
The Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards require students to understand and produce academic language that appears in informational text. Vocabulary is a critical domain of academic language, but English language learners (ELLs) come to the English Language Arts classroom with more limited English vocabulary than…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Arts, English, Common Core State Standards
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Francis, David J.; Snow, Catherine E.; August, Diane; Carlson, Coleen D.; Miller, Jon; Iglesias, Aquiles – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2006
This study compares 2 measures of reading comprehension: (a) the Woodcock-Johnson Passage Comprehension test, a standard in reading research, and (b) the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading Comprehension (DARC), an innovative measure. Data from 192 Grade 3 Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) were used to fit a series of latent variable…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Grade 3, Test Validity