An Informal Reading Readiness Inventory

Name of Pupil: ________________________________Level of Readiness: _________

School: ______________________________________Grade & Section: ___________
Birthday: _____________________________________ Age: ____________________
Rater’s Name: ________________________________ Overall Score: _____________
Readiness Factors Quality of Response
(to rate, put a check on the Very Good Fair Limite Very
corresponding column) Good d Limite
(5) (4) (3) d
(2) (1)
General Productiveness
a. Originality of ideas
b. Sentence structure
c. Richness of word meanings
d. Quality of speech
Recognition of Relationships
a. Appreciation for number
b. Recall of details
c. Associating new ideas
d. Appreciation for space and size
Mental and Physical Coordination (Give writing/coloring exercise related to the story)
a. Muscular coordination
b. Left-to-right progression
c. Eye-hand coordination
d. Organization and quality of thought
units
Auditory Discrimination (provide examples of sounds)
a. Sound Difference
1. high and low
2. loud and soft
3. long and short (ex. Long a sound
such as /cake/ and short a sound such
as /cat/)
4. timbre (quality of sound)
b. Rhyming words
Visual Discrimination (provide examples of pictures related to the story)
a. kind (category)
b. size
c. shape
d. color
Listening Comprehension
a. Following directions
b. Concentration (attention span)
c. Understanding of story plot
d. Understanding of characters
e. Facility in retelling the story
Comments (General Observations about the child)
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Picture for Reading Inventory