QRI 5 Analysis

The student observed doing this QRI 5 analysis was a thrid grader and an ESL student. She was started off on the first grade level reading word lists, where she was able to idenfity the words on the list, so moving on to the passage was the next step. With no prior knowledge of the students reading abilities you could quickly tell her certain habbits. She easily becomes discouraged but with some encouragment she is able to read the words and move on. The first passage that she read was on level one and was called "Mouse in a House." When asked about the topic she was able to show she was familiar with 65%. As she went on to the passage you could notice that she struggled with words and their endings, for example she would say went when the correct word on the paper was wanted. When finished with the passage she had a total of 9 misuces, which pur her on the insturcional reading leve. She was able to recall about 22 of the 44 retelling ideas and scored at an instructional level for the questions that she answered. The assessment was moved on to the second grade evaluation level since we were working with a thrid grade student. She scored only 22% when asked the concept questions for the story. She seemed to struggle more on this level and was unable to retain specific information fromt he reading passage, so her comprehension was not that great. She had a total number of 13 miscues when reading the passage "Whales and Fish" and she only was able to recall 11 out of the 49 ideas on her own. however she seemed to be able to answer the questions about the story most accurately. She once again scored on the instructional reading level. Overall one would say that this student is not reading on grade level. While she was able to get through the passages and struggled over certain parts, overall her performance was not that great. I would reccommend that this student not only works on their reading skills but their confidence as well. Confidence seemed to play a major roll in this students abilities, she second guessed herself many times and would stumble over words in the passages taht she was able to identify in the word lists. Also working closely with the teacher as well as the ESL teacher and practicing will help greatly.