Week 3 The Structure of Intervention

Assignment#2 

Discuss what assessments are needed to measure students' learning outcomes and how teachers can address these common core learning standards if you have students of various reading levels. (Note: This exercise will help you familiarize with Common Core Standards and think about how you can use assessments to inform your instruction.)

There are many ways teachers can assess students that follow along with the common core learning standards. Teachers can create their lessons by using the common core standards as a guideline. Teachers can create each lesson by first thinking of what the overall goal of the lesson is (what they want their students to take away from the lesson) then the assessments are created after this step (backward design). Another way teachers can assess students who have various reading levels are to assess them throughout the lesson, not just at the end of the lesson. This will allow the teacher to know which students need extra help and which students need to be challenged more. Teachers should all ready have planned this out when they were creating each lesson (how they will get the students who need extra help to reach the overall goal of the lesson...and how they will challenge the students who need to be challenged a little more). By having different options will allow all the students to succeed and hit each standard.

Assignment #3 

• What is QRI5?

The Qualitative Reading Inventory-5 is an individually administered informal 

reading inventory (IRI) designed to provide information about (1) conditions under 

which students can identify words and comprehend text successfully and (2) conditions 

that appear to result in unsuccessful word identification or comprehension. 

• What is the purpose of using QRI5?

The purpose of using QRI5

- To determine a students reading ability and comprehension. 

- Assess the oral and silent reading and listening ability of students from the pre-primer 1 through the high school levels.  

- Estimate students’ reading levels, to group students for guided reading sessions, or to choose 

appropriate books for literacy circles, reading workshops, and independent reading.

- Provides information for designing and evaluating intervention instruction.

-Can be used to document students growth.

• Have you seen similar assessment activities like QRI5? What are they?

The only activity that I have seen that is like the QRI5 is the "Running Record." 

• What is your impression of QRI5?

The QRI5 seems like a great method to determine a students reading ability. It also provides teachers with different techniques and methods of reading assessments. It is a great way to record a students growth and progress.