ENIL: Evaluación del nivel independiente de lectura

American Reading Company offers a unified, standards-based framework for student assessment and instruction, text leveling, and curriculum for students learning to read and write in Spanish.

National Standards for Reading

ENIL

Not a mere translation of our standards-based Independent Reading Level Assessment (IRLA), ENIL stays true to the idiosyncrasies of the process involved in learning how to read in Spanish, while taking advantage of its commonalities with the acquisition of literacy skills in English. Specifically, ENIL reflects the natural sequence of acquisition of reading skills in Spanish in the areas of phonics, decoding, and phonemic awareness, and it is consistent with Spanish Language Arts state standards.

The ENIL finds the independent reading level of every student using:

• State standards (culled from a comprehensive review of state standards across the nation)
• National Reading Panel/No Child Left Behind elements of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension)
• Leveling system for text (More than 8,000 titles have been hand-leveled from more than 85 publishers.)
• Standards for a successful academic reading lifestyle (Students should be reading for at least an hour a day.)

Assessment Categories

The ENIL contains an assessment rubric for each level of the ABE leveling system. Each rubric incorporates the following categories:

Wide Reading and Motivation

• In-school reading investment and stamina building
• Home reading routines
• Reading across genres

Phonemic Awareness/Phonics/Word Solving Strategies

• Oral and aural segmentation
• Sequential phonics/decoding skills

Fluency

• Accuracy
• Expression
• Pace

Vocabulary and Background Knowledge

• High-frequency words
• Literary and technical vocabulary
• Word structures and etymology
• Figurative language
• Domain-specific information

Comprehension of Informational and Literary Text

• Active reading strategies
• Basic understanding
• Interpretation
• Critical response