Qualitative Reading Inventory-5, CourseSmart eTextbook, 5th Edition

The QRI-5 has long led the field in offering students and teachers alike a reliable and easy-to-use informal assessment instrument. This Fifth Edition continues to emphasize authentic assessment of children’s reading abilities, from the most emergent readers to advanced readers.

One of the keys to the success of the QRI-5 is that it contains narrative and expository passages at each pre-primer through high school level. All are self-contained selections highly representative of the structure and topic of materials found in basal readers and content-area textbooks. This new edition includes new narrative texts that are even easier than the pre-premier passages previously included. At the same time, it provides graded word lists and numerous passages designed to assess the oral reading, silent reading, or listening comprehension of a student as well as questions to assess prior knowledge. Instructors can measure comprehension by retelling passages, using implicit and explicit questions, and using other devices.

Although the QRI-5 remains an informal assessment instrument, highly respected scholars and researchers Lauren Leslie and JoAnne Caldwell conducted an extensive piloting of the new materials with approximately 168 first and second grade students.  This comprehensive inventory is designed for students in graduate education courses, reading-assessment specialists, and school district personnel who offer in-service work in reading assessment or who are involved in designing assessment procedures for a school or district.  Whereas the administration of standardized tests remains identical across all students, the QRI-5 provides a number of diagnostic options that serve a variety of purposes, including identifying reading levels to match students to appropriate materials, verifying a suspected reading problem, determining reader strengths and needs, and suggesting directions for intervention instruction.

Contents

Preface

Section 1

Description of the Qualitative Inventory

Section 2

A Research Perspective

Reading Acquisition: A Developmental Process

Factors Related to Comprehension

Factors Related to Word Identification

Factors Related to Use of an Informal Reading Inventory

Section 3

Information Provided by the Qualitative Reading Inventory

Finding Reading Levels

Determining Reader Strengths and Needs

Documenting Growth and Change

Questions Regarding the Validity and Reliability of QRI-5

Section 4

Uses of Qualitative Reading Inventory 5-The Examiner as a Reflective Decision Maker

Using the QRI-5 to Estimate Individual Instructional Reading Level

Using the QRI-5 to Estimate Group Reading Level and Monitor Classroom Progress (Response to Intervention)

Using the QRI-5 to Determine Reading Level

Using the QRI-5 to Indicate Growth and Monitor Individual and Group Progress: Response to Intervention

Using the QRI-5 to Verify a Suspected Problem

Using the QRI-5 to Describe Specific Reading Behaviors as a Guide for Intervention Instruction (Response to Intervention: Tiers Two and Three)

Section 5

Administration and Scoring of the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5

Preparation for Testing

Summary Guidelines for Administration and Scoring

Section 6

Administration and Scoring of the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5

The Word Lists

Purpose for Administering the Word Lists

Procedures for Administering the Word Lists

Procedures for Scoring the Word Lists

Section 7

Administration and Scoring of the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5

Assessment of Prior Knowledge

Assessing Prior Knowledge

Section 8

Administration and Scoring of the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5

The Passages

Purposes for Administering the Passages

Assessment Option

General Procedures for Administering the Passages

Passage Selection

How to Find an Instructional Level

Section 9

Administration and Scoring of the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5

Word Identification Index: Oral Reading

Recording Oral Reading Miscues

Counting Oral Reading Miscues

Analyzing Oral Reading Miscues: Miscue Analysis

Evaluating Automatically

Section 10

Administration and Scoring of the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5

Comprehension

Retelling

Questions

Criteria for Determining Reading Levels

Section 11

Administration and Scoring of the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5

Assessing Strategic Reading

Look-Backs

Think-Alouds

Assessing Note-Taking Ability

Assessing Listening Comprehension

Section 12

Summarizing the Results of the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5

Organizing the Data

Section 13 Examples of Using the Qualitative Reading Inventory

Using the QRI-5 to Estimate Individual Instructional Reading Level

Using the QRI-5 to Estimate Group Instructional Reading Level and Monitor Classroom Progress (Response to Intervention)

Using the QRI-5 to Determine Individual Instructional Reading Level

Using the QRI-5 to Indicate Growth and Monitor Individual and Group Progress (Response to Intervention)

Using the QRI-5 to Verify a Suspected Problem

Using the QRI-5 to Describe Specific Reading Behaviors as a Guide for Intervention Instruction (Response to Intervention: Tiers Two and Three)

Section 14

Test Materials

Subject Word Lists

Examiner Word Lists

Pre-primer I Passages

I Can (Pictures)

I See (Pictures)

Pre-primer 2 Passages

Just Like Mom (Pictures)

People at Work (Pictures)

Pre-primer 3 Passages

Lost and Found

Spring and Fall

Primer-Level Passages

A Trip

Fox and Mouse

The Pig Who Learned to Read

A Night in the City (Pictures)

Who Lives Near Lakes? (Pictures)

Living and Not Living

Examiner Copies

Level One Passages

Mouse in a House

Marva Finds a Friend (Pictures)

A Bear and the Rabbit (Pictures)

Air

The Surprise (Pictures)

The Brain and the Five Senses (Pictures)

Examiner Copies

Level Two Passages

What Can I Get for My Toy?

The Lucky Cricket (Pictures)

Father’s New Game (Pictures)

Whales and Fish

The Family’s First Trip

Seasons

Examiner Copies

Level Three Passages

The Trip to the Zoo

A Special Birthday for Rosa

The Friend

A New Friend from Europe

Cats: Lions and Tigers in Your House

Where Do People Live?

Wool: From Sheep to You

Examiner Copies

Level Four Passages

Johnny Appleseed

Amelia Earheart

Tomie dePaola

Early Railroads

The Busy Beaver

Plant Structures for Survival

Examiner Copies

Level Five Passages

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Margaret Mead

Patricia McKissack

Farming on the Great Plains

The Octopus

How Does Your Body Take in Oxygen?

Examiner Copies

Modeling Passage for Think-Alouds

The Mining Boom

Level Six Passages

Pele

Abraham Lincoln

The Early Life of Lois Lowry

The Lifeline of the Nile

Building Pyramids (Think-Aloud Passage)

Temperature and Humidity

Clouds and Precipitation (Think-Aloud Passage)

Examiner Copies

Upper Middle School Passages

Literature

Biddy Mason

Malcolm X

Social Studies

Immigration-Part 1

Immigration-Part 2

(Think Aloud-Passage)

Examiner Copies

Science

Life Cycles of Stars-Part 1

Life Cycles of Stars-Part 2

(Think-Aloud Passage)

Examiner Copies

High School Passages

Literature

Where the Ashes Are-Part 1

Where the Ashes Are-Part 2

Where the Ashes Are-Part 3

(Think-Aloud Passage)

Social Studies

World War I-Part 1

World War I-Part 2

World War I-Part 3

(Think-Aloud Passage)

Science

Characteristics of Viruses-Part 1

Characteristics of Viruses-Part 2

Characteristics of Viruses- Part 3

(Think Aloud Passage)

Examiner Copies

Section 15 Technical Development of the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5

The Pilot

Development of the World-Identification Tests

Development of Prior-Knowledge Assessment Tasks

Development of Measures of Comprehension

Development of the Think-Aloud Procedure

Development of the Passages

The Relationship between Oral Reading Accuracy and Comprehension

Reliability and Validity

Using the QRI-5 to Guide Instruction

References

Index