Qualitative Reading Comprehension

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As suggested by the Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 administrator’s manual instructions, the first grade word list was administered, to determine the instructional reading level to establish a starting point on the reading assessment. The QRI-4 guideline suggested Addison begin reading the word lists at the first grade level of the QRI-4, two levels below her current grade level. Addison completed the first grade word list automatically with 100% accuracy, in the allotted time, signifying she read the words at the independent level. When analyzing the second grade word list, Addison automatically identified 90% of the words, indicating she was identifying words at the independent level, although the score decreased 10%
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Addison responded to three concept questions and demonstrated prior knowledge and scored 100%, indicating she was familiar with the text, hence increasing correct words read, and responding correctly to the comprehension questions. When considering total words read correctly, Addison read the passage with a 90% accuracy of total words and when considering the total acceptability errors, Addison read 97 % words correctly at level two. However, Addison performed slightly higher on the level two expository passage, “Whales and Fish”. Addison scored 100% on the three concept questions. When considering total words read correctly, she read the passage with a 96% accuracy on total words and when considering the total acceptability errors, Addison read 98 % words correctly at level two. Addison made several errors while reading, however she utilized prior knowledge, context clues, and self-monitored errors to reread words, phrases, and sentences to make self-corrections. Addison self-corrected miscues 67% in the narrative passage and corrected 50% of the miscues in the expository passage. Addison obtained a score of 84 correct words per minute and 79 correct words per minute respectively at the second grade level and obtained a comprehension score of 75% on the narrative and expository …show more content…
Addison again responded to the concept questions and demonstrated prior knowledge and scored 100% and 98% respectively, indicating she was familiar with the text, hence increasing the correct words read and responding correctly to the comprehension questions, scoring 75% correct comprehension questions on both passages . When considering total words read correctly, Addison read the passage with a 96% accuracy on of total words and when considering the total acceptability errors, Addison read 97 % words correctly on the two level three passages. However, she read 55 and 59 correct words per

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