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• Teacher to Teachers
• How to Use this Resource Kit 

• Introduction 

• What Research Tells Us About Reading 

• Lexile Framework for Reading 

• Reading Skills for the Workplace 

• Reading Required in School 

• A Quite Different Type of Reading 

• Comprehension in Context 

• Using a Common Framework 

• What Is a Reader Lexile Measure? 

• What Is a Text Lexile Measure? 

• The Lexile Scale 

• Accuracy of Text Measures 

• Conclusion 

• The Challenge

• The Goal of Instruction 

• Best Practices in Strategic Reading 

• Assessment Drives Instruction 

• Matching Readers with Text 

• A New Approach to the Data 

• Types of Data 

• Recent Efforts to Measure Academic Growth

• The RIT Difference 

• More Data on Learning to Read 

• Lexile + RIT Show Expectations 

• Barriers to Improved Reading Growth

• Practical Data-based Suggestions 

• Summary 

• Integrated Regents Program 

• Literacy Development in the IRP 

• Teacher Collaboration 

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