Content Reading Inventory Paper

As teachers it is vital to equip our students with the skills that strengthen their competence and motivation to learn. Whether a student is a struggling reader, a striving reader, or a competent reader, finding their independent, instructional, and frustration reading level is a key component in building their confidence as a proficient and skilled learner. A Content Reading Inventory (CRI) can be an effective assessment tool to indicate how much information a student has retained from a reading. It can also as provide useful data to understand and realize what students know, as well as help identify students who struggle with decoding skills, fluency, and comprehension.
The content-area text chosen for this CRI assessment was in the disciplinary …show more content…
However, this seemed reasonable in order to activate my disciplinary learner’s prior knowledge in the subject, as well as encourage problem-solving and critical thinking to build new knowledge. Secondly, disciplinary literacy refers to the specifics of reading, writing, and communicating in a discipline. It focuses on ways of thinking, technical terms, and the strategies that are used by experts in the disciplines (Buehl, 2011). In order to achieve disciplinary literacy, students should have a frame of reference that will enable them to understand how the professionals in the discipline practice and think. With this in mind, I developed questions to evaluate my student’s understanding of the content-area vocabulary, and designed both multiple choice and short-answer questions to assess my learner’s explicit (e.g., recall and literal) and implicit (e.g., inferential and evaluative) comprehension of the text selection. I also provided additional space for my learner to explain his reasoning strategies and answer choices. Another challenge was deciding how best to score the assessment. I decided to score the CRI both quantitatively for the multiple-choice and vocabulary questions, and qualitatively for the extended