Comprehension+-+Information,+Assessment+&+Resources

**Comprehension** - the ability to understand written text - is the ultimate goal of reading. Learn more about this complex cognitive process by visiting the resources below.

**[|Comprehension]** from [|Reading Rockets: Teaching Kids to Read and Helping Those Who Struggle] (Be sure to check out [|Target the Problem! Comprehension], too.)

**[|Comprehension: a Definition]**, from [|ReadingIsGood]

**[|Reading Comprehension - Reading for Meaning]**, from [|Education.com]

**[|Understanding Reading Comprehension]**, from Scholastic.com

These ** Assessments ** are available in the IMC. To locate other assessment resources, search [|Destiny], our online catalog, at [|school] or at [|home]. by Joetta M. Beaver and Mark A. Carter, Ph.D.
 * = [[image:dra2.jpg]] || **//Developmental Reading Assessment//**, 2nd ed. (DRA2), Grades 4-8

The DRA2 is intended to be used in intermediate and middle-school classrooms for students reading from Level 20 (second grade) through Level 80 (eighth grade) to assess reading engagement, oral reading fluency, and comprehension. || by Lauren Leslie and JoAnne Schudt Caldwell (FAC 372.48 LES Pbk.)
 * = [[image:QRI-5.jpg width="154" height="200"]] || ** //Q// ** **//ualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) - 5//**. 5th ed.

This informal reading inventory is "designed to provide information about (1) conditions under which students can identify words and comprehend text successfully and (2) conditions that appear to result in unsuccessful word identification or comprehension." The //**QRI-5**// features graded word lists and narrative and expository text passages "designed to assess the oral and silent reading and listening ability of students from the pre-primer 1 through the high school levels." (p.1) || by Mary De Konty Applegate, Kathleen Benson Quinn, and Anthony J. Applegate (FAC 372.48 APP Pbk.)
 * = [[image:Critical_Reading_Inventory.jpg width="177" height="240"]] || **// The Critical Reading Inventory (CRI): Assessing Students' Reading and Thinking //** . 2nd ed.

The authors of this informal reading inventory define critical reading as "thoughtful literacy, a dynamic process of thinking about what we read and how it fits in with our own ideas and values, the ideas of others, ideas we have encountered in the past, and ideas that we accept or reject." (p.2) The **//CRI//** assesses a student's ability to "react and respond" to literature or informational text in order "to incorporate new information into [his] existing framework of understanding." (p.1)

See also **//Reader's Passages to Accompany the Critical Reading Inventory: Assessing Students' Reading and Thinking//**. 2nd ed. (FAC 372.48 APP Pbk.) || by Lois A. Bader and Daniel L. Pearce (FAC 428 BAD Pbk.)
 * [[image:BADER.jpg width="210" height="210"]] || //** Bader Reading and Language Inventory. 6th ed. **//

This resource, appropriate for K-12, ESL, and adult learners, "provides valid, reliable procedures for individual, in-depth assessment in seven areas: Emergent Reading, Word Identification and Phonics, Comprehension, Spelling, English as a Second Language, Writing, and Oral Processing. Unique to this inventory is an arithmetic screening test so reading and language skills can be compared with math skills for better overall assessment, and visual and auditory discrimination screening is included." -- from Pearson Higher Education site ||
 * Other Resources of Interest **

//**The Key Comprehension Routine**//, 2nd ed., by Joan Sedita. (FAC 372.47 SED Pbk.) //**Yellow**// //**Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12**//, by Janet Allen. (FAC 372.48 ALL Pbk.) //**Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning**//, by Dough Buehl. (FAC 372.48 BUE Pbk.) //**Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding**//, by Stephanie Harvey. (FAC 372.48 HAR Pbk.)
 * = [[image:NoveList_Plus.png link="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=uid"]] || **[|NoveList Plus]**

**NoveList Plus** is an outstanding resource through which readers can learn about fiction and nonfiction books and authors. This searchable database provides information, including descriptions, suggested reading levels (including lexiles), reviews from high quality magazines and journals, and links to related full-text articles and web sites, about nonfiction texts and picture books, children's chapter books, young adult novels, and books for adult readers. **NoveList** is updated monthly, and adds about 10,000 new fiction records, along with descriptions, reviews and other information, to the database each year.

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 * = [[image:EbscoHost_Icon.png link="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=uid"]] || ** [|Professional Development Collection] **

This outstan﻿ding database features 520 full-text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Here are just a few of th﻿e many titles you'll find in the collection :

// Read // // Reading Improvement // // Reading Psychology // // Reading Research Quarterly // // Reading Teacher // // Reading Today // // Reading & Writing Quarterly // // Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy // // Journal of Research in Reading //

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 * Understand the language of reading Instruction **, by checking out these helpful glossaries:

**[|All About Adolescent Literacy: Glossary]**, from [|AdLit.org]


 * [|Glossary] **, from [|¡Colorín colorado! A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners]

**[|Glossary of Reading Terms: The Language of Literacy - Some Commonly Used Terms]**, from [|Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS)]

**[|Glossary]**, from [|Reading is Good]

**[|Glossary of Reading Terms]**, from the [|Southwest Educational Development Laboratory]