Center for Innovation in Assessment

Curriculum

Informational Text Reading Inventory (ITRI)

The Informational Text Reading Inventory (ITRI) was created to address the significant drop in performance that students experience as they struggle to apply the reading skills they've learned in earlier grades to their expository textbooks. ITRI is an instructional assessment and reading inventory that helps teachers to gather baseline data about how well students read their textbooks. ITRI lessons teach the specific reading skill areas that are critical to successful comprehension of informational texts. Because all ITRI content comes from Indiana's Academic Standards for science, social studies, and English/Language Arts (E/LA), the ITRI assessment materials enhance the subject matter teachers already teach. Students will always learn the reading skills within the context of their science, social studies and English/Language Arts curriculum.

ITRI News

8/12/2009 - Indiana University's School of Education will be offering an online course for graduate level credit on the effective use of reading assessments in the classroom. There will be training in using the Indiana Reading Diagnostic Assessments (K-2) or the Informational Text Reading Inventory to shape a Standards-based instructional program. Click here for more information.
08/01/2009 - For the 2009-2010 school year, CIA is proud to extend the Informational Text Reading Inventory (ITRI) to Grades 1 and 2. Created for student’s earliest encounters with informational text, these materials were designed to mimic the trade books and text books that early primary students encounter at home and in the classroom. Students are introduced to text features and learn important concepts such as predicting, main idea, sequence, and cause and effect through teacher-guided activities incorporating content from Indiana’s Academic Standards for English/language arts, science, social studies, and health.
4/1/2008 - The Indiana Learning Resource Network (I-LRN) is now available. This search engine will help you locate printable reading resources and activities.
8/22/2007 - We are no longer able to provide Black Line Masters for the Grade 4 Informational Text Reading Inventory (ITRI). All materials are still available for download from this site.
1/25/2007 - Soon you will be able to search for resources related to reading and the Informational Text Reading Inventory (ITRI) through I-LRN, our online database for teachers, parents, and administrators. Check back for more information about this exciting new resource.
11/13/2006 - The Grade 5 Informational Text Reading Inventory (ITRI) was accidentally printed with filled-in examples of the scoresheets found in Appendix C and Appendix D. We apologize and offer the blank scoresheets here in PDF form.
- Appendix C - Scoring Sheet: ITRI Assessments
- Appendix D - Scoring Sheet: Grade 5 ITRI Lessons
9/12/2006 - The Grade 5 Informational Text Reading Inventory (ITRI) is currently available for download from this web site. Grade 4 ITRI materials remain available for download as well. Additionally, black line masters of both grade levels are available upon request, with a limit of one set of materials per school.
5/4/2006 - The Grade 4 Informational Text Reading Inventory (ITRI) is currently available for download from this web site. Black line masters are also available upon request, with a limit of one set of materials per school.
5/4/2006 - We are currently field testing materials for the Grade 5 ITRI. These materials will be available for the 2006-2007 school year. We will post more information as it becomes available.
5/4/2006 - We are currently developing materials for the Grade 3 ITRI. We are looking for classrooms to participate in a winter/spring 2007 field test of these materials. For more information, contact the Center for Innovation in Assessment at itri@indiana.edu.
9/29/2005 - We are pleased to announce that the Grade 4 Informational Text Reading Inventory (ITRI) will be available free of charge to Indiana schools by late fall of 2005. Downloadable pdf versions of all documents will be available online at that time. Black line masters will also be available upon request, with a limit of one set of materials per school. We will post more information to our web site as it becomes available.
9/29/2005 - We are currently working to develop ITRI materials for the fifth grade classroom that will stress the skills and standards emphasized at this grade level. We are hoping to begin a field test of these materials in late winter or early spring. If you would be interested in participating in this field test, please contact the Center for Innovation in Assessment at itri@indiana.edu.