Examining readability estimates' predictions of students' oral reading rate: Spache, lexile, and forcast

School Psychology Review

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 277-285

  Ardoin, Scott P ^a   Williams, Jessica C ^b   Christ, Theodore J ^c   Klubnik, Cynthia ^d   Wellborn, Claire ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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