Developmental Literacy Inventory

The Developmental Literacy Inventory is an informal reading inventory and more.  Its graded word recognition lists and reading passages, all written especially for this instrument, allow teachers to assess students’ silent and oral reading comprehension, fluency, and word recognition with narrative, social studies, and science passages at reading levels from Primer to high school.  Word recognition lists, spelling inventories, and an emergent literacy instrument that includes assessment of phonemic awareness and concept of word enables teachers to diagnostically assess students from kindergarten to high school.  Comprehension questions about each reading passage tap a wide range of comprehension skills including recall of explicitly stated information, inferential thinking, and vocabulary usage.  Two equivalent forms of the inventory allow retesting at the same levels with different passages. 

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents   About the Developmental Literacy Inventory Why Should You Administer The Developmental Literacy Inventory?   Before you begin… Why Are You Testing this Student? Using the DLI for screening Assessment.             In Late Kindergarten, and the First Half of First Grade. In Mid-to-Late First Grade.  With Students Beyond First Grade.  Using the DLI for Diagnostic Assessment. In Late Kindergarten, and the First Half of First Grade. In Early-to-Mid First Grade.  Late first grade and up. Using the DLI for Monitoring Assessment             Monitoring Reading Fluency.             Monitoring Other Aspects of Reading.   Using the DLI for Assessment of Outcomes Administering the Development Literacy Inventory Getting Ready to Test Assessing Word Recognition in Isolation Administering the Text Passages Find the Student’s Reading Rate. Test the Student’s Listening Comprehension Developmental Literacy Inventory Score Summary Sheet Brief Instructions The DLI Informal Reading Inventory Word Recognition Lists, Form A Word Recognition Response Sheets, Form A Word Recognition Lists,  Form B Word Recognition Response Sheets, Form B Pre-Primer and Primer Passages Form A Narrative Passages Form A Response Sheets for Pre-Primer and Primer Passages Form A Response Sheets for Narrative Passages Form A Social Studies Passages Form A Social Studies Response Sheets Form A Science Passages Form A Science Response Sheets Form A Pre-Primer and Primer Passages Form B Narrative Passages Form B Response Sheets for Pre-Primer and Primer Passages Form B Response Sheets For Narrative Passages Form B Social Studies Passages Form B Social Studies Response Sheets Form B Science Passages Form B Science Response Sheets Form B Emergent Literacy Assessments             For Concepts About Print             An Instrument for Screening Early Readers The Demtup Names Test References

About the Author :
Jean Wallace Gillet, Ed. D., has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and university educator for nearly thirty years.  She is currently an elementary reading specialist in central Virginia.  Jean has coauthored SRA Spelling (SRA/McGraw Hill, 2004) and  professional books including Understanding Reading Problems, now in its 7th edition, with Charles Temple and Alan Crawford (Allyn & Bacon, 2007); Language and Literacy with Charles Temple (HarperCollins, 1996); Teaching Kids to Spell with J. Richard Gentry (Heinemann, 1993); and Directing the Writing Workshop with Lynn Beverly (Guilford Press, 2001).  She has been a staff development consultant to dozens of school districts and has presented papers and workshops at state, regional, and national conferences.