Lynette Allen​​​
Certified Dyslexia Practitioner
Certified Reading Instructor
M.Ed. Currriculum and Instruction​
Why I use Leslie & Caldwell's Qualitative Reading Inventory:
This assessment covers reading abilities from earliest emergent readers (kindergarten) to advanced readers (upper middle school/high school). It assesses oral reading accuracy, rate of reading, and comprehension of passages read both orally and silently. The reading passages are narrative and expository, highly representative of the structure and topics of materials found in basal readers and textbooks used in your child's academic setting.
Reading Levels:
Determining a student's reading level provides information needed for a successful reading plan. This reading inventory assessment goes beyond the common lexile reading score by revealing your student's reading level in three categories; instructional, independent, and frustration. The instructional level is used during lessons and the independent level is used for home reading. This protects from frustration levels being used, which causes discouragement and ensures I am using levels that builds confidence as they learn techniques and practice reading.
Reading Comprehension:
This reading inventory assessment measures reading comprehension in several ways; through analysis of your student's retelling or summary of the passage, through your student's answers to explicit and implicit comprehension questions, and through the use of look backs, separating what your student remembers after reading and what they comprehend during reading.