This document summarizes the administration and scoring of the Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI), including: 1) The main purposes of administering passages are to determine a student's independent, instructional, and frustration levels for word identification and comprehension. 2) Assessment options include evaluating prior knowledge, oral reading miscue analysis, comprehension through recall and look-backs, and think-alouds. 3) General guidelines are provided for administering passages, including instructions to students and selecting appropriate passages.

1. Chapter 9: Administration and Scoring of the Qualitative Reading Inventory 4 Melissa Antonelli and Jaclyn Clark February 18, 2010

3. Main Purposes for Administering the Passages

6. General Administrative Guidelines

8. Passage Selection Questions and Answers

9. Table 16. 2 Terra Nova Standard Scores of Percentile Ranks Divided into Quartiles for the Pilot Sample (Pretest) Grade Minimal Basic Proficient Advanced 4 1 9 0 0 5 3 21 15 2 6 3 5 7 17 7 1 7 10 10 8 0 2 6 18 Total 8 44 38 47 % of Total 6 % 32% 28% 34%

13. Determine Total Passage Level WR: Independent + Comp: Independent = Independent Level Comp: Instructional = Instructional Level Comp: Frustration = Frustration Level WR: Instructional + Comp: Independent = Instructional Level Comp: Instructional = Instructional Level Comp: Frustration = Frustration Level WR: Frustration + Comp: Independent = Frustration Level Comp: Instructional = Frustration Level