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. Early Schools In the early schools of our country, boys and girls used a book which was called the New England Primer. This book did not have the interesting stories and pretty pictures that our primers and readers have today. The alphabet was the most important part of the reader then. After each letter of the alphabet was a queer little picture, and beside it a rhyme. Children studied their lessons out loud so that the teacher might know how well they were doing. When they had learned their lessons, they stood in a row in front of the teacher with their toes touching a crack in the floor, and recited. It took most boys and girls a long time to learn to read this primer. 1. One of the first books used in the schools was a geography an arithmetic a primer a speller 2. This book was called the Massachusetts Reader New England Primer New York Primer Children's Reader 3. The most important part of it was the pictures stories rhymes alphabet 4. After each letter of the alphabet was a picture story poem lesson 5. The children studied softly carefully out loud quietly 6. When the children knew their lessons they recited them to their neighbor brother mother teacher 7. This book was read with ease with speed with difficulty with pleasure 8. To learn to read the book usually took part of a year one year a long time many years 9. The children studied out loud to please themselves to annoy their neighbors so the teacher could hear to learn more quickly Your score is out of 9 Click on the appropriate grade level for a list of equivalent reading books. Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Grade Level 2.0 2.3 2.5 2.8 3.1 3.5 3.8 4.2 4.6 5.3
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.
Early Schools In the early schools of our country, boys and girls used a book which was called the New England Primer. This book did not have the interesting stories and pretty pictures that our primers and readers have today. The alphabet was the most important part of the reader then. After each letter of the alphabet was a queer little picture, and beside it a rhyme. Children studied their lessons out loud so that the teacher might know how well they were doing. When they had learned their lessons, they stood in a row in front of the teacher with their toes touching a crack in the floor, and recited. It took most boys and girls a long time to learn to read this primer.
a geography an arithmetic a primer a speller
2. This book was called the
Massachusetts Reader New England Primer New York Primer Children's Reader
3. The most important part of it was the
pictures stories rhymes alphabet
4. After each letter of the alphabet was a
picture story poem lesson
5. The children studied
softly carefully out loud quietly
6. When the children knew their lessons they recited them to their
neighbor brother mother teacher
7. This book was read
with ease with speed with difficulty with pleasure
8. To learn to read the book usually took
part of a year one year a long time many years
9. The children studied out loud
to please themselves to annoy their neighbors so the teacher could hear to learn more quickly
Your score is out of 9
Click on the appropriate grade level for a list of equivalent reading books.