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Warren, Thomas S. – 1985
Although informal reading inventories are widely used, they are not without their shortcomings, regardless of whether they have been published commercially or have been constructed by the teacher. There are at least two significant weaknesses in inventories developed by the teacher: (1) passages selected randomly from the graded basal readers that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Assessment, Informal Reading Inventories, Readability