Curriculum-Based Assessment Reading Probe:

Examiner Copy
Title: RMl Storybook 2
Author: The Bugs
Total Rd wds:_

#Errors: ___Correct Rd wds:

%Correct Rd Wds:____

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

13

eat." So the 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 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
A big bug met a little bug. The big bug said, lets go eat. So the (little) big bug ate a
leaf and a nut and a rock. The big bug said, That is how big bugs eat. The little bug
said, Now I will eat. So the little bug ate a leaf and a nut and a rock. Then (he) the
little bug went to a log and bit the log.

Total number or words: 70

Number of errors: 2
Correct read words: 68
Percent correct: 97%

WPM: 70
Independent reading