Analytical Reading Inventory: Comprehensive Standards-Based Assessment for All Students Including Gifted and Remedial

A thorough, Common Core State Standards-based informal reading inventory for measuring the progress of typical, remedial, and gifted  readers with step-by-step instructional for administration.

The Analytical Reading Inventory (ARI) is an informal assessment tool designed to determine a student’s reading level and to establish an instructional plan for improvement.  It is comprised of a series of literature and informational text reading passages of increasing difficulty, from Preprimer through Level Nine, and can be used with all readers from the very young to high school students.  As the student reads a leveled passage, the examiner records quantitative and qualitative Common Core State Standards data on easy-to-use Examiner’s Passage Record Sheets.  The record sheets are comprehensive, making it possible to record data, summarize data, identify an instructional focus, and report results.

The Tenth Edition of the ARI support pre-service and graduate education students, instructors, school psychologists, and classroom, Title I, and special education teachers, by offering:

• NEW!  Examiner’s Passage and Summary Record Sheets.
• NEW!  PDToolkit website with multimedia resources in video, audio, and PDF formats including case studies, demonstrations, presentation models, practice opportunities, presentation charts, Quick Assessment templates, and Record Sheets.
• Common Core Instructional Strategies for each of the five assessment and instruction elements.

The tenth edition of the Analytical Reading Inventory provides an informal reading inventory with highly detailed directions for both beginning and advanced teachers for determining reading levels and skills from primer to ninth grade using narrative and expository text passages.  The processing activities and questions for in-class use are helpful to instructors and their students. -- Rosemary E. Garr, University of Maryland

This book is a way for teachers to quickly assess their students’ reading abilities. It has many useful features including case studies, a DVD, word lists, reader summaries that are easy to use and implement, as well as both narrative and expository passages. -- Jessica DeShetler, Heritage Middle School (OH)

A thorough, research-based, diagnostic informal reading inventory for measuring the progress of typical, remedial, and gifted readers with step-by-step instructions for administration.

The Analytical Reading Inventory (ARI) is an informal diagnostic tool designed to determine a student’s reading level and to establish an instructional plan for improvement. It is comprised of a series of literary and informational text reading passages of increasing difficulty, from pre-primer to level nine, and can be used with all readers from the very young to high school students. The assessment’s text passages are provided for students to read as the examiner records quantitative and qualitative data on the supplied passage sheets. The materials are specifically organized to assist in recording important information, summarizing and reporting data, and identifying an instructional focus that is relevant and unique to each student.

The Tenth Edition of the ARI supports students and instructors by offering:

• Two assessment scenarios: The Case Study, a means of collecting comprehensive data in a short amount of time; and the ARI Quick Assessments.
• NEW! Examiner’s Passage and Summary Record Sheets.
• NEW! PDToolkit website.
• Common Core Instructional Strategies for each of the five assessment and instructional elements.

The Analytical Reading Inventory, 10/e (ARI) is a thorough, research-based, diagnostic informal reading inventory for measuring the reading progress of typical, remedial, and gifted readers. With clear, step-by-step instructions for administration, it includes everything needed for classroom assessment and direct, relevant advice about instructional intervention. It is comprised of a series of literary and informational text reading passages of increasing difficulty, from pre-primer to level nine, and can be used with all readers from the very young to high school students. Two assessment scenarios are included along with a case study and the ARI Quick Assessment, Examiner’s Passage and Summary Record Sheets, the PDToolkit website, and Common Core-aligned instructional strategies for each of its five assessment and instructional elements.

Mary Lynn Woods was a classroom teacher for 18 years, teaching preschool, grades 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and K-12 remedial reading.  For the last 22 years, she has been an on-site language arts staff development consultant in the Indianapolis area, working directly in K-12 classrooms with teachers and administrators, teaching in-classroom demonstration lessons, conducting in-classroom observations/debriefing sessions, and facilitating teacher study groups.  During that time she also taught language arts and reading diagnostic courses at the University of Indianapolis.  Currently she consults for the Indianapolis Public Schools, Center for Inquiry K-8 schools, # 84, # 27, and #2, providing in-classroom staff development focused upon informal reading inventory assessment and language arts instruction.

SECTION I OVERVIEW 

SECTION II EXAMINER’S PASSAGE AND SUMMARY RECORD SHEETS MODEL 

SECTION III ARI FOR YOUR REFERENCE           

SECTION IV DIRECTIONS– READING LEVELS INDEPENDENT THROUGH FRUSTRATION      

SECTION V DIRECTIONS– SUMMARIZE DATA, IDENTIFY INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS, AND REPORT RESULTS   

SECTION VI ARI QUICK ASSESSMENTS          

SECTION VII TRANSITION TO INSTRUCTION  

SECTION VIII ARI DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION  

SECTION IX APPENDIX           

SECTION X MODEL CASE STUDY – READING LEVELS INDPENDENT THROUGH FRUSTRTION    

SECTION XI EXAMINER’S RECORD SHEETS