Analytical Reading Inventory: Comprehensive Standards-Based Assessment for All Students Including Gifted and Remedial

The Analytical Reading Inventory, 10/e (ARI) is a thorough, research-based, diagnostic informal reading inventory for measuring the reading progress of typical, remedial, and gifted readers. With clear, step-by-step instructions for administration, it includes everything needed for classroom assessment and direct, relevant advice about instructional intervention. It is comprised of a series of literary and informational text reading passages of increasing difficulty, from pre-primer to level nine, and can be used with all readers from the very young to high school students. Two assessment scenarios are included along with a case study and the ARI Quick Assessment, Examiner’s Passage and Summary Record Sheets, the PDToolkit website, and Common Core-aligned instructional strategies for each of its five assessment and instructional elements.

Mary Lynn Woods was a classroom teacher for 18 years, teaching preschool, grades 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and K-12 remedial reading. For the last 22 years, she has been an on-site language arts staff development consultant in the Indianapolis area, working directly in K-12 classrooms with teachers and administrators, teaching in-classroom demonstration lessons, conducting in-classroom observations/debriefing sessions, and facilitating teacher study groups. During that time she also taught language arts and reading diagnostic courses at the University of Indianapolis. Currently she consults for the Indianapolis Public Schools, Center for Inquiry K-8 schools, # 84, # 27, and #2, providing in-classroom staff development focused upon informal reading inventory assessment and language arts instruction.