Matching Students with Textbooks: An Alternative to Readability Formulas and Standard Tests.

Lovitt, Thomas C.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ354063

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1987

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Matching Students with Textbooks: An Alternative to Readability Formulas and Standard Tests.

Lovitt, Thomas C.; And Others

B. C. Journal of Special Education, v11 n1 p49-55 1987

An alternative to readability formulas and achievement tests to let high school students read orally and then recount what they read. Vocabulary scores and oral reading rates were demonstrated as the best predictors of test performance with a minimum oral reading rate of 135 words per minute necessary to profit from textbooks. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Content Area Reading, High Schools, Oral Reading, Reading Difficulties, Reading Rate, Textbook Selection, Vocabulary Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Evaluative

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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