Qualitative Reading Inventory [RENTAL EDITION]

by Lauren Leslie, JoAnne Schudt Caldwell

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The market-leading, reliable, and easy-to-use informal assessment instrument.
The Qualitative Reading Inventory-7 continues to emphasize the authentic assessment of children’s reading abilities – from the earliest emergent readers to advanced readers. This popular resource provides graded word lists and numerous passages designed to assess a student’s oral reading accuracy, rate of reading, and comprehension of passages read orally and silently. Several unique features set it apart from other resources in the field, including narrative and expository passages at each level from pre-primer through high school, as well as all self-contained selections that are highly representative of the structure and topics of materials found in basal readers and content-area textbooks. For example, passages at the pre-primer through second grade levels are presented with pictures, and maps and illustrations are part of the expository selections at fourth grade through high school levels. In the 7th Edition , all sections have been rewritten to make it easier for all teachers to use QRI-7 to assess students’ reading abilities. Additional figures, tables, and boxes are included in all sections to allow users to more quickly scan for information.

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Genres: Education, Textbooks, Teaching, Nonfiction

560 pages, Paperback

First published February 8, 2009

Reviews

[Marquita D · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good way to get a basic idea of a student's reading level and potential struggles. It only has a few passages per level which makes it a bit limiting for ongoing progress monitoring. I found it easy to administer and score. It does make a decent baseline tool and could be used to monitor for larger periods of time such as quarterly. It does provide suggestions on how to address certain areas that may need improvement but you would have to develop a more structured lesson plan beyond what is provided by the book. If you simply need baseline data (particularly for IEP goals/benchmarks) or a general assessment of a student's reading abilities this inventory can be helpful but it does not provide an in depth scope of knowledge like other reading assessments may provide.

[James Geddes · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Qualitative Reading Inventory determines a child's ability to read by assessing accuracy, retelling, rephrasing,and rate. I found it a useful tool to pin point the reading level of the students I worked with.

[Zac Sigler · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good resource but kind of clunky in practice. Also, if one is going to write a book about assessing reading one may want to follow grammar rules of English. I'm constantly substituting "whether" in my head for "if" on the page. Quite distracting!

[Leigh Paddon · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really interesting reading inventory. I think, as suggested by the person who gave it to my school, it would work especially well with Special Education students, who often don't perform well on more standard types of reading tests.

[Jacqueline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very user friendly, however, I did not find the DVD very helpful. The examples given, while helpful, were not very explanatory. I did find a wealth of knowledge from youtube on how to administer certain parts of the assessment.

[Heidi Krueger · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a timeless resource and it’s great to read the updated version. It’s encouraging to know my reading specialist knowledge isn’t completely out of date. I’m looking forward to getting back into reading assessments and interventions

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good theory along with good informal assessment.

[Randie D. Camp, M.S. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good resource for determining the instructional and independent reading levels of students. Similiar to other reading inventories but the CD offers more support than other assessments.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great diagnostic reading assessments for getting a quality look at what students are doing as readers.

[Shailee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything I need for a diagnostic.

[Carol]

Had to read for my MA and give the assessments. The test offers a lot of reading data. WOW.

[K. L. · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
This would have gotten a higher rating, but with the errors, I couldn't do it. You'd think that there wouldn't be any for a textbook on literacy assessments.