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Peer reviewedOlson, Mary W.; Gillis, M. K. – Reading Horizons, 1987
Suggests that informal reading inventories (IRIs) should include both narrative and expository passages. Describes a study of several reading inventories indicating that some current secondary school IRIs have been constructed with some consistency of text types, but failed to reveal a clear picture of text structure for the inventories. (HTH)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Expository Writing, Informal Assessment, Informal Reading Inventories
