RE 5715 Reading Assessment and Correction

Ashley Carroll

RE 5715 Reading Assessment and Correction

IRI 2

April 4, 2006

Darrell Morris

Instructional Level

After reviewing Azhane’s Informal Reading Inventory, I concluded that she is instructional at 4th grade. Her flash score was at a strong 70%, which tells me that she has good sight word knowledge at 4th grade. At the same time her oral reading accuracy was at 92% which is slightly low, however I feel that since her flash was so strong the two could easily balance themselves out. Her rate during oral reading was 94 words per minute, which is only one word slower than where she should be for a fourth grader and her comprehension was good at 72%. When reading silently her comprehension fell to 58%, but her rate remained good at 122 words per minute, which is an excellent score for a fourth grader.

Frustration Level

While administering the fifth grade passage I could tell that Azhane’s rate was falling fast. It fell from 94 words per minute to 87 words per minute, which is where a 3rd grader should be reading comfortably. After reading the 5th grade passage we read the 6th grade passage as well and her rate was even slower there, falling to 78 words per minute. The strange thing about her reading at a fifth grade level, was that her accuracy was not altogether too bad at 93%, but it is still in the grey area near frustration. But as I looked back over her scores the rate just stood out due to how low it was. In the end her rate is more important than her accuracy, because in the end her rate may have an effect on her comprehension. Azhane does have sight vocabulary at 5th grade (scoring a 70 on the word recognition task), but she is not able to retrieve those words quickly when reading in context. When looking at her silent reading scores, she had some trouble with comprehension, scoring a 79% and her rate also slowed significantly from 122 words per minute at 4th grade to 101 words per minute at 5th grade. On average 5th grade students should be reading between 140-170 words per minute.

Spelling Level

• Instructional

Finally I took a look at her spelling abilities. She did a really good job moving through the levels and her scores did not significantly drop until she reached the 4th grade list where she fell from an 83% at 3rd grade to a 42% at 4th grade, which is a score that is in the grey area between instruction and frustration. Overall I feel like she is instructional in spelling at the 4th grade level. As I looked at the errors and the quality of those errors, in the 4th grade list she spelled things like popped as (poped), she did the same for slammed writing is as (slamed.) It is obvious that she is not sure when to double consonants in certain words. There were also some words in the list that weren’t even spelled phonetically like sudden which she spelled as (sutton).In the end though her errors, for the most part were very close to the correct spelling of the word, and for that reason I feel she is instructional at a 4th grade level.

• Frustration

The curious thing about Azhane is that when we went up to the 5th grade list I thought she was doing an excellent job only missing 5 words from the list. However, looking at her errors at the fifth grade level I found some very interesting things. Despite the fact that her score was higher on the 5th grade list than the 4th grade list, the quality of errors was very poor. None of her errors followed any phonetic patterns. For example: explosing for explosion, seelment for settlement, and also presuere for preserve. Her errors were no where near close to the correct spelling of the word. Due to the quality of these errors I would certainly say that she is frustrated at the 5th grade level.