Curriculum-Based Assessment Reading Probe:

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Title: RMl Storybook 2

Author: The Bugs

Total Rd wds:_ 72 #Errors: _2__Correct Rd wds: 70 %Correct Rd Wds:__95__

Total Words in Sample: 100
Total Sentences in Sample: 12
Average Number of Words Per Sentence: 8.33
Number of Words Not Matched to Revised Spache Word List: 5
Percentage of Words Not Matched to Revised Spache Word List: 5.0
Spache Readability Index: 2.44

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A big bug met a little bug. The big bug said, "let's go 13
eat." So the (added in the word “Little”) big bug ate a leaf and
a nut and a rock. The 28
big bug said, "that is how big bugs eat." The little bug 40
said, "now I will eat." So the little bug ate a leaf and a 54
nut and a rock. Then ( added the word “a”) the little bug
went to a log and bit 68
the log. She ate the log. Then she ate ten more logs. 80
"Wow. "the big bug said. "that little bug can eat a lat." 92
The little bug said, "now let's eat more." 100
Spache Readability Formula for This Passage =
(0.141 * 8.33 Avg. Number of Words Per Sentence)+ (0.086 * 5.0 Percent of Words in
Sample Not Found on Spache Revised Word List) + 0.839 = 2.44 Grade Equivalent

The child is reading at the frustration level, it sounds like the child is struggling a little when he
is reading and he sounds tense.

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