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A classroom Gompers Elementary school. File photo. Brian Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times

A classroom at Gompers Elementary school. File photo. Brian Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times

PDF: Vocabulary Results from 2009 2011 NAEP Reading Assessments

PDF: Vocabulary Results from the 2009 and 2011 NAEP Reading Assessments

Vocabulary skills: More poor kids at loss for words

Most of Illinois’ fourth-graders know what “suggested” and “underestimated” mean when reading them in stories, but not “prestigious”. Eighth-graders recognize “motivate” but not “permeated.” And while the vocabulary of Illinois’ young readers is right on par with the rest of the nation, the state’s poor …

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