Will one or more warm-up exercises prior to a 1-min. measure of reading rate improve reliability? Students in Grades 4, 6, and 8 read four 1-min. passages. One-fourth of each sample took the passages in each of four orders. Interpassage correlations were significantly greater for later pairs of consecutive passages than for the first-administered pairs in Grades 4 and 8 but not in Grade 6. The findings offered some support to the claim that a warm-up exercise enhances consecutive-passage reliability of rate scores but inconsistencies among the samples prevented definitive conclusions.
