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The 2002 oral reading study was undertaken to discover how well the nation's fourth-graders can read aloud a typical grade 4 story. The assessment provided information about students' fluency in reading aloud and examined the relationship between oral reading, accuracy, rate, fluency, and reading comprehension. ![More](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081106020442im_/http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/images/common/btnblmor.gif)
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