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Muyskens, Paul; Betts, Joseph; Lau, Matthew Y.; Marston, Doug – California School Psychologist, 2009
The inclusion of English Language Learners as a subgroup in the No Child Left Behind legislation has leant additional importance to the need for valid and efficient measures of reading for students whose first language is not English. This study examines the use of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) reading fluency as a predictor of later reading…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Reading Fluency, Federal Legislation, Predictive Validity
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Brock, Cynthia H. – Urban Education, 2007
This investigation is an ethnographic case study of the literacy learning opportunities of a fifth-grade Hmong child (pseudonym Deng) who came to the United States from Laos via Thailand at the very end of his third-grade year in school. Deng was one of 25 students in a mainstream urban classroom in the Midwest during his fifth grade in school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning