Individual Reading Inventories

The Individual Reading Inventory

Sometimes called informal reading inventories, these simple tools provide a quick tool to assess the student’s reading ability.

This inventory is a series of graded word lists and oral reading paragraphs. The student reads the lists and paragraphs, then answers comprehension questions. The student continues until the administrator has found the student’s:

Independent Level
Instructional Level
Frustration Level

This allows the teaching parent to know what grade level to assign independently, which to use for direct instruction, and which to either avoid or to read aloud to the student.