Week 3 Assignment 3

The Qualitative Reading Inventory-5 (QRI-5) is an informal reading inventory (IRI) that is designed to provide information about how students can identify words and comprehend text. It assesses conditions that result in unsuccessful word identification or comprehension. The QRI-5 provides graded word lists and numerous passages designed to assess the oral and silent reading and listening ability of students. There are a number of assessment options given by the QRI-5 that can be used to determine students reading levels, how to group students in guided reading sessions, and how to choose appropriate books for literacy circles, reading workshops, or independent readings. The word lists are designed to assess accuracy of word identification, assess speed and atomicity of word identification, and determine a starting point for reading the initial passage. The passages are meant to be read orally or silently and they assess the student’s ability to read and comprehend different types of texts. The comprehension of all passages is measured through retelling and questions and is designed to assess the quality of the readers unaided recall, the readers understanding of the text when prompted with questions, and to examine the quality of a student’s comprehension during reading. The thing I liked best about QRI-5 was that it can be done from kindergarten and go through 12^th grade. Comprehension is bound to be at a higher success rate when the same formality is being done from an early age.