RICA Informal Reading Inventory Quiz

Questions and Answers

What is an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)?

Is a collection of assessments administered individually to students to determine reading level.

Which of the following are types of IRI? (Select all that apply)

Word Recognition Lists (correct)

Reading Interest Survey (correct)

Phonemic Awareness (correct)

Mathematics Assessment

Graded Reading Passages (correct)

Vocabulary Assessment (correct)

What is a word recognition list?

A list of 10 words that determines reading level and provides information on sight vocabulary and phonics ability.

What are Graded Reading Passages used for in an IRI?

They are the most important part of IRI; students read aloud while their reading errors are measured. Signup and view all the answers

What is Miscu Analysis?

A strategy for categorizing and analyzing a student's oral reading errors. Signup and view all the answers

Define Graphophonemic Error.

An error related to the sound-symbol relationships for English. Signup and view all the answers

What are Semantic Errors?

Meaning-related errors where the student understands what is being read but needs phonics skills. Signup and view all the answers

What is a syntactic error?

An error made in the same part of speech as the correct word. Signup and view all the answers

How are Frustration, Instructional, and Independent Reading Levels defined?

By assessing comprehension questions after reading aloud. Signup and view all the answers

Define Retelling in terms of measuring comprehension.

It involves having a child list characters, places, and events in their own words. Signup and view all the answers

What is the Independent Reading Level?

The highest grade-level passage a student reads aloud 95% of the words correctly. Signup and view all the answers

Define Instructional Reading Level.

The highest passage the student reads aloud 90% of the words correctly with at least 60% comprehension. Signup and view all the answers

What is the Frustration Reading Level?

Passages that cannot be read and understood by the child. Signup and view all the answers

What does Phonological Awareness refer to?

Knowledge that oral English is composed of smaller units. Signup and view all the answers

What does a child who has phonological awareness do?

Can identify and manipulate sounds at various levels of language. Signup and view all the answers

What is Phonemic Awareness?

The ability to distinguish separate phonemes (sounds) in a spoken word. Signup and view all the answers

What is Phonics?

Knowledge of letter-sound correspondences. Signup and view all the answers

What does the alphabetic principle state?

Speech sounds are represented by letters. Signup and view all the answers

Define a Phoneme.

A speech sound. Signup and view all the answers

What are Graphemes?

Letters that represent phonemes. Signup and view all the answers

What are Onsets and Rime?

Onset is the first consonant sound; Rime includes the vowel sound and any following consonants. Signup and view all the answers

What are phonograms/rime?

Words that share the same phonogram and are considered word families. Signup and view all the answers

How to Teach Phonological Awareness + Phonemic Awareness?

Involves word awareness, syllable awareness, blending, and onset and rime blending. Signup and view all the answers

What is the goal of Word Awareness?

To help children become aware that sentences are made up of words. Signup and view all the answers

What does 'To Teach Word Awareness' involve?

Building sentences using word cards and reading them as a whole and separately. Signup and view all the answers

What is Syllable Awareness?

Asks children to clap while saying each syllable in a two-syllable word. Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)

A collection of individual assessments designed to determine a student's reading level.

Types of IRI

Includes Word Recognition Lists, Graded Reading Passages, Reading Interest Surveys, and assessments for concepts about print, phonemic awareness, reading fluency, structural analysis, and vocabulary.

Word Recognition List

Comprises 10 words per list to assess reading level and sight vocabulary and phonics decoding ability.

Graded Reading Passages

Considered the most critical component of the IRI; students read aloud from K-8 grade-level passages, allowing for the measurement of errors, such as miscue analysis, graphophonemic, semantic, and syntactic errors.

Miscue Analysis

A method for categorizing and analyzing a student's oral reading errors.

Graphophonemic Error

Involves errors related to sound-symbol relationships in English (e.g., "reading feather for father"), indicating overreliance on phonics or inappropriate difficulty level.

Semantic Errors

Meaning-related errors where the student understands the text but makes phonics-based mistakes (e.g., "reading dad for father").

Syntactic Errors

Errors occurring in the same part of speech as the correct word (e.g., "reading into for through"), signaling a need for better phonics attention.

Reading Level Definitions

Frustration Level: Child struggles with passage comprehension, cannot read at least 90% of words or answer 60% of questions correctly.
Instructional Level: Highest level where the student reads 90% of words correctly and answers at least 60% of questions correctly.
Independent Level: Highest level where the student reads 95% of words correctly and answers 90% of comprehension questions correctly.

Retelling

A comprehension measurement technique requiring students to recount characters, places, and events from the passage in their own words.

Phonological Awareness

Awareness that oral English consists of smaller units, enabling manipulation of sounds on different levels.

Phonemic Awareness

The ability to discern individual phonemes within spoken words.

Phonics

Understanding of letter-sound correspondences.

Alphabetic Principle

The concept that letters represent speech sounds.

Phoneme

The smallest unit of sound in speech.

Graphemes

The letters representing phonemes.

Onsets and Rime

Components of single syllables: Onset is the initial consonant(s), while Rime includes the vowel sound and any subsequent consonants.

Phonograms/Rime

Word families sharing the same phonogram, such as -at (e.g., cat, bat, sat).

Teaching Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

Techniques include Word Awareness, Syllable Awareness, Word Blending, Syllable Blending, and Onset and Rime Blending.

Word Awareness

Helps children recognize that sentences consist of words, requiring identification of word boundaries using short sentences.

Teaching Word Awareness

Use word cards to build sentences, emphasizing separation and togetherness in reading.

Syllable Awareness

Encourages children to clap for each syllable in two-syllable words, enhancing their understanding of syllable structures.

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Description

Test your knowledge on the Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) with this quiz. Learn about its purpose, types, and key assessments that help determine students' reading levels. Master the components that contribute to reading fluency and comprehension.