Jaclyn Fishler

11/11/15
SERP 407A
Administration of the Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI)
The student that I chose to examine for the QRI is a tenth grader named Oscar. When we
were instructed to complete this assignment, I immediately thought of this particular student
because he is very cooperative and he thrives in his life skills class, which consists of students
that range from moderate to severe disabilities. Oscars teacher agreed that he is the perfect fit
for this administration and she recommended that I start him at the third grade reading level.
After I conducted the QRI, I came to the realization that Oscar has a strong ability of reading
words out loud, but he struggles with comprehending what he reads.
To begin with, I assigned Oscar to answer concept questions about a story titled The
Trip to the Zoo. While asking these questions, Oscar seemed confident for most of it, except he
admitted that he was uncertain about one of the questions so he did not receive any points for
that one. While reading the text aloud, Oscar did not make any miscues considering he was able
to read quickly and he automatically knew how to pronounce the words. The closest part to a
miscue was when he self-corrected himself when he said class for the word glass. This selfcorrection may have a correlation with the meaning of the text because it is about a class trip.
Although Oscars level of oral word reading was independent, his level of oral reading
comprehension was frustration. I noticed that the most difficult part for him was to recall ideas,
since he was only able to recall three out of fifty-five total ideas. Oscar did slightly better with
answering the comprehension questions at the end, but he still only scored three and a half out of
a total of eight questions.

Overall, Oscars level for the third passage was frustration, so I gave him a passage titled
What Can I Get for My Toy? to read at the second grade level. For the concept questions,
Oscar did fairly well as he was able to give me automatic answers that were mostly correct.
While reading the passage, Oscar did not have any miscues, which did not surprise me
considering he did not have any miscues for the third grade level either. For the retelling of the
story, Oscar did a little better this time considering he was able to recall seven ideas, but I could
tell that he was still struggling with this. Once again, he scored higher on the comprehension
questions and he ended up reaching the instructional level. Most of his questions were answered
implicitly and he answered one question explicitly. Since Oscar was given a shorter passage with
an easier content, he improved on his comprehension.
Lastly, I gave Oscar a passage titled The Bear and the Rabbit at the first grade level to
see if he could reach the independent level for comprehension. He received a perfect score on the
concept questions because he was able to correctly present clear, descriptive answers. As
expected, Oscar flew through the portion of reading the passage out loud. I noticed that he
struggled with the retelling of the story again, so this may be construed as his area of weakness.
Oscar was able to recall approximately half of the parts from the text. On a bright note, Oscar
answered all of the comprehension questions correctly, so he scored at the independent level for
this section, which helped him reach his overall independent level.
All in all, Oscar has a lot of excellent reading skills, but there are areas needed for
improvement. Oscar has a difficult time remembering what he read, which may be due to his
lack of intonation and expressiveness. While reading the text, Oscar often sounded monotone
which proves that he is deprived of the portrayal of expression. He also has trouble with
recognizing relationships among sentences in the passages as well as understanding characters

and their intentions. However, Oscar is a relatively quick reader and he effectively uses phrasing
as he paused at the appropriate times and he always acknowledged punctuation. As an example,
Oscar raised his pitch at the end of questions to indicate that there is a question mark.
Furthermore, Oscar has great phonemic awareness and he has the capability of recognizing and
reading words out loud. When he reads out loud, it sounds very smooth and he vaguely shows
any signs of hesitation. Generally, Oscar has tremendous decoding skills, which proves that he is
a fluent reader.