QRI-5 Pages 37-47 Dave and Lindsay

Guidelines for Testing

Get materials

Explain QRI procedures

Administer word lists

Assess prior knowledge

concept questions

prediction

Give passages

Retelling

Questions

Administering Word Lists

Give directions

Determine a beginning list

start at a lower level than the grade level of child

Record responses

accurate vs. automatic

Scoring Word Lists

score it immediately

independent----> continue up

instructional or frustrational----> move down until independent, then move up until get to frustrational again

automatic vs. identified

low vs. high frequency vowel patterns (decoding by analogy)

note whether in isolation or in context after reading

Purpose for Administering Word Lists

Estimating starting point for passages

Examine knowledge of letter/sounds

Examining knowledge of vowel patterns

Analyze difference between words read in isolation vs. context

Estimating automatic word identification