Through the presentation of two bilingual reader profiles, this article will illustrate how miscue analysis can act as a culturally relevant assessment tool as it allows for the study of reading across different spoken and written languages. The research presented in this article integrates a socio-psycholinguistic perspective to reading and a…

Concludes that a higher incidence of oral reading errors is associated with close proximity to unknown words. (RB)

Describes the usefulness of a cloze test given after an initial oral reading of the same passage. (MKM)

Studied teachers' responses to syntactically and semantically acceptable miscues, to dialect different miscues, and to graphic and sound similar miscues. Teachers objected most strongly to miscues related to dialect. (MKM)

Cautions that weighting errors on an oral reading test in line with miscue analysis procedures can lead to inappropriate independent reading level placement. (MKM)