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Qualitative Reading Inventory
//A Diagnostic Summary of Desmond's Pre-Assessment Levels// Silent Reading ||= 5th ||= 6th ||= Upper Middle || Desmond, a 7th grade student has been identified by his teachers and family as a struggling reader. As his tutor, I gathered information about his strengths and weaknesses from his current teacher and the school's speech pathologist. He typically scored lower in reading based courses therefore he was highly recommended to become the case study student for my reading clinic. The Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) was administered on September 20th and served as a beneficial diagnostic tool to make proper decisions and develop further instruction for my student's future tutorials and reading education.
 * =  ||= Independent ||= Instructional ||= Frustration ||
 * = Word Identification ||= 5th ||= 6th ||= Upper Middle ||
 * = Oral Reading/

In correspondence with the word identification, Desmond's independent level was the 5th grade word list. Desmond breezed through these list with confidence and felt very accomplished. Desmond's instructional level with the word list was 6th grade where he scored 85% overall. He identified over 70% automatically, but sometimes tripped up over words that he was unfamiliar with. Once we started to work with the upper middle word lists, it was very easy to identify his frustration level. It took a little bit longer to complete this word list and he paused frequently in between.

After reading his motivation to read profile, I noticed that he likes reading about sports and social studies. I selected passages that I felt may interest him and find more enjoyable to read. Once I noted his frustration, instructional and independent levels from the words lists, I used those same levels for his reading passages. I chose 4 passages from the QRI-5: the fifth grade "Farming" which was an expository passage and the sixth grade "Pele". The student was unfamiliar with the concepts from "Farming" and scored a 25%. However, he performed very well with comprehension and Total accuracy and scored at an independent level for the fifth grade "Farming" and an instructional level for "Pele" a narrative 6th grade passage. He scored significantly lower for the 6th grade expository passage "Lifeline of the Nile." I was actually surprised that he only scored 33% with familiar text because he told me this was the material he was learning about in Social Studies. He really enjoyed the passage, "Pele" which informs me that I need to incorporate more text based on his interests. His frustration level was Upper Middle Grades where he scored 50% with look backs and 30% without.

Overall Desmond was very successful with completing the QRI diagnostic. He was eager to participate but grew weary by the last passage. Given his grade and age he does very well as a reader. He is constantly identified as a struggling reader however during our individual assessment he did very well. Desmond does need help with comprehension and retaining the main points of the readings. He does an exceptional job with answering explicit questions with and without the look back strategy. However an area of improvement needs to be implicit questions where he has to infer answers based on the readings and retelling major points of the story. He scored low marks on retelling the story on all readability levels for the passages selections. Even with think alouds he only makes inferences about how the reading relates to movies or television shows that he may have previously seen. Even when I asked for more detail or information, he would just shut down.I look forward to using the information from the diagnostic for our future lessons.

Student Profile

**Examiner Word Lists**