Informal Reading Inventory Essay

Informal Reading Inventory An Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) is an independently administered test intended to help one define a student’s reading instructional needs. The test has four section called silent reading comprehension, oral reading (running record), miscue analysis, and listening comprehension. Each section assesses the student in a different skill. The silent reading assesses the student ability to summarize the text read, the oral reading assesses the student’s fluency, miscue analysis determines if the student has meaning, syntax, or visual errors, and lastly the listening comprehension measures the students’ ability to hear a story and answer questions. Student A did horrendous in the pretest with a 25% but in the posttest …show more content…
Each intervention included a passage with 8 multiple choice questions and either a story map or SWBST graphic organizer to be filled out while reading. Three of the six interventions will be with a story map and the other three will be with a SWBST graphic organizer. After reading, the students must utilize the graphic organizer to answer the 8 questions. The students do the reading silently, fill out the graphic organizer alone, and answer the question with no prompting so the results are solely based on the students’ performance. The main purpose of this is to determine if graphic organizers help to improve reading comprehension. Interventions 1, 3, and 5 were conducted utilizing a SWBST graphic organizer. Student A was only present for interventions 1 and 3 because when intervention 5 was conducted she had already left the school. For intervention 1, Student A seemed to not enjoy the story which affected the graphic organizer because she did not comprehend and the questions were mostly wrong. She scored a 25% getting 6 out of the 8 questions wrong. On the other hand, Student B enjoyed the story and the graphic organizer greatly influenced her answer to the questions. She got 8 out of the 8 questions correct getting a