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Peer reviewedRoller, Cathy M. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2002
Demonstrates the wide variability among children learning to read and explores the consequences of this variability for reading instruction. Shares some examples to demonstrate that variability. Demonstrates what happens when very different children read identical text. Describes a way to organize classrooms that will better accommodate the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 1, Individual Differences, Predictor Variables
Peer reviewedConnatser, Bradford R. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1999
Proposes that readability formulas cannot predict text difficulty. Presents results of an experiment designed to demonstrate that "text difficulty" is determined by individual differences (perception) and not by the objective qualities of a text. (NH)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Individual Differences, Readability Formulas, Reader Text Relationship
