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 12th grade. Comprehension is bound to be
at a higher success rate when the same formality is being done from an early age.
I also liked how the QRI5 could be utilized with all grade levels. There are also additional measures of comprehension (think-aloud and look-backs) for the higher grade levels which allows teachers to dig deeper and learn more about their reading behaviors.
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