Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g37Fxhu22867; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:59:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:59:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <113.f817e48.29e1c65d@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: LELemke@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3964] ceiling effect and reading levels X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 46 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 350 Lines: 9 Dear Marie, I teach special ed, and your "rule of thumb" is what I've been doing as well. Being that much of what we read in newspapers is written at a middle school level, my experience has been that students who can read at the 7th to 8th grade lever are quite functional for the majority of the reading material they need to access. Ellie
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