Curriculum-Based Assessment Reading Probe:

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Title: RMl Storybook 2
Author: The Bugs
Total Rd wds:_70

#Errors: 2___Correct Rd wds:68

%Correct Rd Wds:___97%_

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

A big bug met a little bug. The big bug said, "let's go

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eat." So the little ^ SC big bug ate a leaf and a nut and/ a rock. The/
big bug said, "that is how big bugs eat." The little bug

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said, "now I will eat." So the little bug ate a leaf and a

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nut and a rock. Then the he ^ SC little bug went to a log and bit68
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

The total number of words read was 70 and there were 68 correct. The percentage is
97% and would therefore be in the category of instructional level.
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

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