Week 10 Assignment 3

The Qualitive Reading Inventory-5 is an individually administered informal reading inventory used to determine a student’s level of reading and comprehension. The assessment consists of grade leveled word lists and narrative and expository passages. There are a few parts to this assessment, so that a student’s reading ability can be determined most accurately. This assessment can determine a child’s independent, instructional, and frustration reading level. As educators, it is important to determine students’ instructional level, so that we can select appropriate level books for literacy circles and reading workshops, to design and evaluate intervention instruction, and to assess students’ progress.

DIBELS is a reading assessment that is researched based, that assesses the early literacy and reading skills of young students. This assessment focuses on phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency, and comprehension. DIBELS offers benchmark scores to help inform teachers of their students’ literacy development. Based on the scores, teachers can provide students with the appropriate intervention if necessary, to help them meet the end of the year grade expectations. Additionally, DIBELS allows for teachers to regulate students’ progress.

The QRI-5 and the DIBELS are both effective reading assessments that are used to assess student’s literacy skills. Furthermore, both forms of assessments can determine if a student requires intervention or not. However, there are several differences between these assessments. Firstly, the QRI-5 is administered to individual students from grades K-12 and is customized to their reading level. On the other hand, DIBELS is a formal assessment, that is only used to assess students from grades K-6. Secondly, the QRI-5 assesses students’ fluency and comprehension and DIBELS additionally assesses students’ phonemic awareness and alphabetic principle. Lastly, the QRI-5 is a longer, more detailed assessment tool and DIBELS are 1-minute, short assessments.

Both the QRI-5 and DIBELS are excellent assessment tools that can be used in the classroom. These assessments can help educators determine the appropriate interventions for all their struggling students. By using these assessments in my classroom, I hope to give each one of my students the optimal opportunity to progress and succeed in their education.