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Peer reviewedTempleton, Shane; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1981
A comparison of the difficulty in underlying structure of basal reading texts with the difficulty in surface structure raises questions on the validity of the Fry Readability Formula and other traditional readability formulas. (CJ)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Deep Structure, Predictive Validity, Readability
