IRI Testing

I got a note from J's kindergarten teacher. The kids were all given the Idaho Reading Initiative test last week. They evidently pulled each child out into the hall and asked them to identify letters and letter sounds. The letter sounds weren't graded and reported, but they will be when the children are re-tested in the Spring.

Proficiency levels were reported as 1 (below grade level), 2 (slightly below grade level), and 3 (grade level for kindergarten in the Fall.) To receive a 3, the children had to name 11 letters in one minute's time.

J named 58 letters in one minute, as well as 33 letter sounds (the tester obviously repeated letters to fill the one minute.)

Too bad the proficiency levels only go up to 3!

The teacher wrote a little note next to his results, "I will be challenging him."