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Grade Range: High School through Adult
Administration: Individual
Time: About 20 to 45 min
CARA is an informal reading inventory that will determine a student’s instructional reading level and specific strengths and weaknesses in word recognition and comprehension. The instructor’s manual and student’s assessment booklet contain a graded word list and nine levels of passages, ranging in readability from Grades one to twelve. Each level contains two fiction and three non-fiction passages. There is a total of 49 graded passages with comprehension questions.
Basic skill areas tested include reading, spelling, language, study skills and mathematics.
Features and Benefits
- CD-ROM provides interactive exercise on how to administer, score and interpret CARA.
- Contemporary Canadian content
- Each of the nine levels are articulated with provincial literacy levels
- Piloted with over 1500 adult basic education students
- Provides diagnostic information, enabling you to design effective lesson plans
- Identifies reading patterns, enabling you to choose effective teaching strategies.
- Parallel forms are available, enabling you to administer tests and post-tests with confidence.
- You purchase only one copy of the student’s assessment booklet, as passages and questions can be photocopied.
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