The purpose of this reading inventory is to return a test score that directly correlates to the reading level of the student being tested. Read the following selection and answer as many questions as possible in 3 minutes! At the completion of the test, match the test score with the appropriate grade level listed at the bottom of the page. This button will open the "Timer" window which will allow you to "Start" the timer. After you have started the timer, go to work on the Inventory. The timer will ask you to "Stop" when the time has elapsed. The Picnic Troy, New York August 12, 1949 Dear Ruth, Grandmother is going to give me a picnic party out on the farm on my birthday, August 26. She says that I may invite six guests and I want you and your sister Mary to be two of them. Wear your old clothes because we expect to eat our lunch in the woods and then play in the hay and go wading in the brook. Mother will drive us out in the car, starting from our house at eleven o'clock. We will be home again by five o'clock. I hope that you will be able to come. Your friend, Edith 1. It is the birthday of Mary Grace Edith Ruth 2. The number of guests will be 2 5 6 7 3. This letter was written to Grandmother Edith Helen Ruth 4. The party is given for Edith Mary Mother Ruth 5. They will go to the party in the hay wagon by automobile by train on foot 6. The picnic will be in the park in the house on the farm in the car 7. They will start at 2 o'clock 5 o'clock 11 o'clock 12 o'clock 8. They plan to eat lunch in the hay the brook the barn the woods 9. The children should wear old clothes bathing suits overalls new clothes 10. The birthday picnic is to occur in a week fourth sixth eighth 11. Choose the best title: 6 years 11 years 16 years 21 years Your score is out of 11 Click on the appropriate grade level for a list of equivalent reading books. Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Grade Level 1.7 1.9 2.2 2.5 2.9 3.2 3.6 4.2 4.8 5.3 6.0 7.0
This button will open the "Timer" window which will allow you to "Start" the timer. After you have started the timer, go to work on the Inventory. The timer will ask you to "Stop" when the time has elapsed.
The Picnic Troy, New York August 12, 1949 Dear Ruth, Grandmother is going to give me a picnic party out on the farm on my birthday, August 26. She says that I may invite six guests and I want you and your sister Mary to be two of them. Wear your old clothes because we expect to eat our lunch in the woods and then play in the hay and go wading in the brook. Mother will drive us out in the car, starting from our house at eleven o'clock. We will be home again by five o'clock. I hope that you will be able to come. Your friend, Edith
Mary Grace Edith Ruth
2. The number of guests will be
2 5 6 7
3. This letter was written to
Grandmother Edith Helen Ruth
4. The party is given for
Edith Mary Mother Ruth
5. They will go to the party
in the hay wagon by automobile by train on foot
6. The picnic will be
in the park in the house on the farm in the car
7. They will start at
2 o'clock 5 o'clock 11 o'clock 12 o'clock
8. They plan to eat lunch in
the hay the brook the barn the woods
9. The children should wear
old clothes bathing suits overalls new clothes
10. The birthday picnic is to occur in
a week fourth sixth eighth
11. Choose the best title:
6 years 11 years 16 years 21 years
Your score is out of 11
Click on the appropriate grade level for a list of equivalent reading books.