[MOSAIC] best iri

[gina nunley]

Wow I actually took a course from Silvaroli at ASU back in the early 80s.
 
Our district reviewed IRIs about 7 years ago and couldn't find big differences in them.  In the end we were down to Jerry John's and QRI. (Qualitative Reading Inventory) We chose QRI because they were going to allow us to purchase 1 book for a grade level and then copy passages, whereas Jerry John required us to purchase every teacher a book and we didn't have the funds.  We made kits from the QRI and gave one to each teacher.
 
Overall I like it.  It offers narrative and expository passages and there is a mixture of implicit and explicit comprehension questions.  You can do a reading rate at the same time, and of course you can do as much as you'd like with the miscue analysis.  What upper grade teachers don't always understand is that unlike the early year's running records, a QRI is only good as a beginning, middle, and end of the year assessment.  ( I even wonder about how helpful the middle of the year is). The running records of early grades of course reflect the big leaps those readers make within short periods of time. You aren't going to see many older kids jump a full grade level from beginning to middle. 
 
   
Gina 
6th grade ELA
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