Test yourself! WR News Literacy Skills Assessment.

From: WR News, Senior Edition (including Science Spin) | Date: September 28, 2007 | Copyright information

WR News Senior Edition is pleased to bring you our fall Literacy Skills Assessment for the 2007-2008 school year. It provides you with a convenient tool for measuring students' strengths and weaknesses in selected comprehension skills. The assessment also provides students with practice in various test-taking formats.

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This Literacy Skills Assessment has been designed to test students' reading comprehension. The questions with each reading ...

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