The QRI-5 is administered this way in order to provide information about conditions under which students can or cannot identify words and comprehend text successfully.
What is "individually administered"?
100
At this level, there are three narrative and three expository passages for each level. The narrative passages for two of the grades are biographies, which are used to provide a controlled assessment of prior knowledge.
What are the types of passages for grades three through five?
100
When assessing these grade levels, it is important that the examiner identify the student's reliance on pictures.
What are pre-primer, primer, first grade and second grade levels?
100
Interestingly, when this skill is equivalent for both good and poor readers, they demonstrate equal capabilities.
What is prior knowledge?
100
This two skills will increase when a reader can easily identify words.
What are speed and automaticity?
200
The grade levels at which the QRI-5 is administered to assess oral, listening, and silent reading aptitude.
What are grades pre-primer through high school?
200
This level has six passages: two passages are literature selections; two passages consist of science content; and two others represent social studies content.
What are upper middle school passages?
200
The instructional level.
What is the level at which you are to instruct your students, using scaffolding as needed?
200
Most likely, students are more familiar with this structure of passage than the other found in the QRI-5.
What is a narrative passage?
200
This ability allows the student being assessed to identify words out of context with automaticity.
What is one indication of a skilled reader?
300
QRI-5 is one of these three: a norm-referenced, an informal reading inventory, or a standardized assessment.
What is an informal reading inventory?
300
The QRI-5 passages at these levels consist of five narrative and one expository passages. Some of these passages have pictures with them.
What are pre-primer, primer, first grade, & second grade passages?
300
These are the three levels of reading ability the QRI-5 assessment measures.
What are independent, instructional, and frustration levels?
300
Put your "Universal Thinking Cap" on! All cultural groups have stories with episodic structures, but there is one aspect of these episodic structures that differs.
What are the number of episodes in a story?
300
On standardized test measures, this reading factor is said to have a high correlation with comprehension.
What is reading fluency?
400
These are the two types of passages used in the QRI-5.
What are narrative and expository passages?
400
The High School Passages include these.
What are three passages from literature, social studies, and science texts used at the high school level?
400
The QRI-5 assesses this through retelling and questions.
What is comprehension?
400
This aspect of reading is not included in the QRI-5.
What is vocabulary assessment?
400
Define the Verbal Efficiency Theory.
What occurs when children do not develop the ability to read words quickly and accurately, thus leading to a lack of comprehension?
500
The three reasons why word lists are included in this assessment.
What is: 1. assessing accuracy of word identification, 2. assessing speed and automaticity of word identification, & 3. determining a starting point for reading the initial passage?
500
This level is very similar to the passages for third through fifth grades, although the expository passages have ancient Egypt as their topic.
What are sixth grade passages?
500
This terms refers to an option afforded third grade through high school levels in order to delve deeper into the student's comprehension of a passage.
What are look backs?
500
These are the two types of questions found in the QRI-5.
What are literal (or explicit) questions and what are inferential (or implicit) questions?
500
Good fluency suggests that the student has this capacity for paying attention to comprehension, but it doesn't tell us how of if this is used by the student.