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Text Leveling and Little Books in First-Grade Reading

http://www.ciera.org/library/reports/inquiry-1/1-010/1-010.html

CIERA Report #1-010
James V. Hoffman, Nancy L. Roser, Rachel Salas, Elizabeth Patterson, and Julie Pennington
The University of Texas--Austin

CIERA Inquiry 1: Readers and Texts
What are the characteristics of readers and texts that have the greatest influence on early reading? What are the tasks posed to young readers by currently available beginning reading programs?

In this paper, Hoffman and his colleagues investigated the validity of two current approaches for estimating text difficulty at the first-grade level--the Scale for Text Accessibility and Support-Grade 1 (STAS-1) and the Fountas/Pinnell system--and analyzed student performance in relation to each.They worked with 105 first graders in two schools, using “little books"--easy to read tiny paperbacks that serve as leveled practice materials for beginning readers

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