Why are the fluency passages fiction?
When we designed the fluency passages, we chose fiction because generally we expect fiction to be more conversational than non-fiction, with more dialogue, and would lend itself more diagnostically to analyzing prosody. Furthermore, with fictional fluency passages and non-fiction used in the comprehension subtest, DORA addresses the unique reading differences between fiction and non-fiction, making it a more robust assessment.
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