QRI-5 with Third Grade Student

            I assessed a third grade student with exceptional reading skills. While I was assessing the students using the given word lists, she passed the 2^nd-5^th grade word lists with amazing results. She was also reading the sixth grade words at an instructional level and reading the seventh grade words at a frustration level. I was only able to extract material up until fifth grade to use for her and she still did extremely well.

            This child was able to read all of the words and self correct herself on all but two words in the Martin Luther King Jr. passage. The only prior knowledge that she had of Martin Luther King Jr. was that he was shot. This child read with such ease and was never prompted to being to reread a word throughout the entire passage. While I asked her questions afterwards about the passage she read she was able to tell me almost specific details from the beginning of the passage but began to have trouble answering the questions from the fourth question on. When she was encouraged to look back in the passage she was able to get six out of eight questions correct on the questions I asked her. This tells me that she is able to understand the material she reads with a chance to look back and reread the passage.

            As a third grade student reading fifth grade material I was extremely proud of her. I would love to assess this child with narrative text and work with her on expression with quotations so that she can be even more successful in her reading. She reads every night with her father for twenty to twenty five minutes to keep her fluency rate high.