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Direct linkHiebert, Elfrieda H.; Fisher, Charles W. – Journal of Educational Research, 2007
"The Critical Word Factor," based on word recognition demands of texts, is a measure of text difficulty designed specifically for texts used by beginning readers. The measure is a function of the number of new, unique words per 100 running words of text that fall outside a designated curriculum. The authors investigated the validity of the…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Reader Text Relationship
