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Direct linkTroia, Gary A. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
This article discusses methods for evaluating students' content-area literacy skills. Four specific factors that affect content-area literacy are described: vocabulary knowledge, topic knowledge, text structure knowledge, and textbook readability, along with methods of evaluating each of the factors. Most of these methods have not yet been…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Readability, Content Area Reading, Literacy
