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Qualitative Reading Inventory, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (August 1, 2021) © 2021

  • Lauren Leslie Marquette University
  • JoAnne Schudt Caldwell Cardinal Stritch University

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For students in teacher preparation programs, reading specialists and school district personnel who offer in-service work in reading assessment or who are involved in designing assessment procedures for a school or district (K to 12).

The market-leading, reliable and easy-to-use informal assessment instrument

The Qualitative Reading Inventory-7 emphasizes the authentic assessment of children's reading abilities. Several unique features set it apart from other resources in the field, including narrative and expository passages from pre-primer through high school and more.

In the 7th Edition, all sections are rewritten to make it easier for all teachers to use QRI-7 for assessment.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Range continues through high school. Narrative and expository passages are included for each pre-primer through the high school level.
  • Prior knowledge and retelling are measured.
  • Materials are included from social studies and sciences, including pictures or diagrams from Grade 4 and higher.
  • Passages at 4th grade and up include complex comprehension questions based on the Common Core.
  • The QRI-7 provides several diagnostic options that serve a variety of purposes including, identifying reading levels to match students to appropriate materials, verifying a suspected reading problem, determining reader strengths and needs and suggesting directions for intervention instruction.
  • Look-Backs test students on questions they've missed.

New and updated features of this title

  • NEW: Section 11 provides greater detail on how to administer, score, and analyze results for the Inference Diagnostic passages. Testing materials for Inference Diagnostic passages are now included in Section 12.
  • NEW: Section 9 now focuses on recording, analyzing, and using the results of QRI-7. This includes using the Student Summary Form to select materials and instructional strategies for intervention instruction, plus information about how to use QRI-7 to indicate growth and monitor progress.
  • UPDATED: Section 1 defines reading and challenges simplistic views of reading comprehension. It also explains informal reading inventory (IRI) assessment and discusses the issue of text complexity.
  • UPDATED: Section 2 explains how the QRI-7 is different from other published IRIs and explains the research that guided the development of the QRI-7.
  • UPDATED: Section 3 clearly describes the different purposes for administering QRI-7 and outlines the basic steps for conducting the assessments. Sections 4 to 8 provide detailed descriptions of how to administer QRI-7 for its various purposes.
  • UPDATED: Section 13 describes the extensive piloting of testing materials found in QRI-7 and includes reliability and validity data for the overall test.

Features of Pearson eText for the 7th Edition

  • NEW: 19 all-new video clips in Sections 3 to 8 provide a model for how to introduce, administer, and score different parts of QRI-7. Many of these videos include a split-screen view so students can observe the examiner's scoring marks in real time. The Appendix includes videos of full sessions with 6 different students, and allows students to practice scoring word lists and passages. The Appendix also includes links to author-scored versions of these sessions for students to check their work.
  • NEW: 32 application exercises have been added in 8 different sections to provide students with additional practice scoring and analyzing QRI-7 results, and making instructional decisions. Many of these exercises include linked forms and artifacts as the basis for the practice. The questions in these exercises are usually constructed-response. Once learners provide their own answers to the questions, they receive feedback in the form of model answers written by the authors.
  1. Introduction to Basic Concepts of Reading Assessment
  2. Research Guiding the Development of the Qualitative Reading Inventory
  3. Purposes and Basic Steps for Administering the Qualitative Reading Inventory-7
  4. Determining Reading Levels
  5. Using the Word Lists
  6. Assessing Word Identification in Context, Automaticity and Prosody
  7. Assessing Comprehension: Questions and Retellings
  8. Assessing Strategic Reading: Think-Alouds
  9. Recording, Analyzing and Using Results of the QRI-7
  10. QRI-7 Test Materials: Word Lists and Level-Diagnostic Passages
  11. Administering and Scoring the Inference Diagnostic Passages
  12. Inference Diagnostic Materials
  13. Technical Development of the Qualitative Reading Inventory-7

About our authors

Lauren Leslie is Professor Emerita at Marquette University where she directed the Hartman Literacy and Learning Center for over a decade. In addition to the Qualitative Reading Inventory she has published 2 other books with JoAnne Caldwell, both published by Pearson: The Content Area Reading Assessment: A formative measure of the Common Core State Standards (Pearson, 2015) and Intervention Strategies to Follow an Informal Reading Inventory: So what should we do now? (Pearson, 2013). She has published over 20 research articles and received (with Linda Allen) the Albert J. Harris Research Award from the International Reading Association in 2001. She also received the Bielefeld Award for Professional Achievement in teaching, research and mentoring of women faculty and students at Marquette University in 2006.

JoAnne Schudt Caldwell is currently Professor Emerita at Cardinal Stritch University. She is coauthor of Content Area Reading Assessment: A Formative Measure of the Common Core State Standards, Intervention Strategies to Follow Informal Reading Assessment; So What Do I Do Now? and Reading Problems: Assessment and Teaching Strategies. She is the author of Reading Assessment: A Primer for Teachers in the Common Core Era and Comprehension Assessment: A Classroom Guide. She received her PhD from Marquette University and in 2005 received an Achievement Award from that institution.

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