The Stieglitz Informal Reading Inventory: Assessing Reading Behaviors from Emergent to Advanced Levels

The Third Edition of The Stieglitz Informal Reading Inventory , known as the SIRI, continues to offer a simple and clear approach to reading assessment. This inventory can be used in a variety of educational settings allowing teachers with limited or no experience with informal reading inventories easily administer this instrument. Those with more experience can take advantage of the SIRI's numerous diagnostic options to examine specific reading behaviors in word recognition and comprehension. Section One provides an introduction to the SIRI. Section Two describes procedures for initial administration and scoring of the SIRI. The diagnostic options of the SIRI are presented in Section Three for the examiner who wishes to go beyond the initial administration and obtain additional information on students' reading behaviors. Section Four contains a collection of student test materials, and Section Five includes copies of forms needed to record the results. Finally, Section Six presents information and technical data on the development and validation of the SIRI. The SIRI reflects current views of the reading process. While it retains many standard IRI features such as graded passage and words in isolation tests, it also improves upon the traditional design of this instrument. Innovative features include a test for recognizing words in context, a dictated story strategy for assessing the reading behaviors of emergent readers, and procedures for determining the familiarity and interest level of selections read. A major goal in the development of the SIRI was to assemble expository and narrative material that younger and older students alike would enjoy reading without sacrificing the instrument's validity or efficiency.

Table of Contents:
Section One. Introduction to The Stieglitz Informal Reading Inventory. Components of The Stieglitz Informal Reading Inventory. Overall Design of the SIRI. Who Can Administer the SIRI? Section Two. Initial Administration and Scoring Procedures. Administering and Scoring the SIRI to Determine Placement in Reading Material. Sample Analysis of a Sixth-Grade Student. Making Sense of Results that Don't Seem to Make Sense. Summarizing the Results: Putting It All Together. The Dictated Story Assessment Strategy. Sample Cases. Section Three. Diagnostic Options of the SIRI. Writing Reflections Interview. Graded Words in Context Test. Graded Words in Isolation Test. Practice Passages for the Graded Reading. Passages Test. Graded Reading Passages Test. Strategies for Using Dictated Stories for Assessment. The Stieglitz Assessment of Phonemic Awareness. Specific Analysis of Word Recognition Miscues. Specific Analysis of Comprehension Errors. Summarizing the Results. Section Four. Student's Test Materials. Student's Test Materials for Initial Administration. Graded Words in Context Test: Form A. Graded Reading Passages Test: Form A — Expository. Graded Words in Context Test: Form B. Graded Reading Passages Test: Form B — Narrative. Photographs for Dictated Story Assessment Strategy. Student's Test Materials for Diagnostic Options. Graded Words in Isolation Test: Form A. Graded Words in Isolation Test: Form B. Practice Passages. Graded Reading Passages Test: Form C — Expository. Graded Reading Passages Test: Form D — Narrative. Section Five. Examiner's Record Forms & Quick Lists of Instructions for Initial Administration and Diagnostic Options. Initial Administration. Summary of Student Performance Sheet. Reading Reflections Interview Form. Quick List of Instructions for Administering the Graded Words in Context Test. Graded Words in Context Test: Form A. Quick List of Instructions for Administering the Graded Reading Passages Test. Graded Reading Passages Test: Form A — Expository. Graded Words in Context Test: Form B. Graded Reading Passages Test: Form B — Narrative. Story Retelling Form to Assess Sense of Story Structure and Comprehension. Quick List of Instructions for Administering the Dictated Story Assessment Strategy. Dictated Story Assessment Strategy Record Form. SIRI Synthesis of Information Rubric. Diagnostic Options. Writing Reflections Interview Form. Quick List of Instructions for Administering the Graded Words in Isolation Test. Graded Words in Isolation Test: Form A. Graded Words in Isolation Test: Form B. Practice Passages. Graded Reading Passages Test: Form C — Expository. Graded Reading Passages Test: Form D — Narrative. Summary Sheet of Silent Reading. Performance. Summary Sheet of Accountable Miscues. Summary Sheet for Recording and Analyzing Miscues. Summary Sheet for Categories of Comprehension Errors. Dictated Story Assessment Strategy Record Form for Follow-up Session. Stieglitz Assessment of Phonemic. Awareness. Section Six. The Development of the SIRI. Constructing the Word List Tests. Designing the Dictated Story Assessment Strategy. Constructing the Graded Reading Passages Test. Estimating Instructional Levels. Determining Alternate Form Reliability. Examining Reader Familiarity. Determining Reader Interest. Examining Levels of Comprehension. References.