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Although you can assess use of context within IRI paragraphs a test designed to measure this strategy explicitly might be useful.
Select several paragraphs for each reading level. Students must be tested at their instructional level. Periodically omit words that can be determined from the context of the selection. Some to be identified from meaning of the passage, some from syntactic clues, etc. When omitting words retain the first letter, or letters if the word begins with a consonant blend or digraph.
Variation is to first test potential words in isolation. Then those words the students does not know test in context.
