IRLA: Independent Reading Level Assessment
American Reading Company offers a unified, Common Core Standards-based framework for student assessment and instruction, text leveling, and curriculum.
Common Core Standards for Reading
The Independent Reading Level Assessment (IRLA) determines the level at which students can successfully decode, understand, analyze, and evaluate text without teacher support.
Students spend most of their time working without direct teacher support in text books, seat assignments, research projects, home reading, and high-stakes testing. It is essential that educators establish a student’s independent reading level as the baseline for planning instruction and charting student progress.
The IRLA finds the independent reading level of every student using:
- Common Core Standards
- Leveling system for text (more than 75,000 titles from more than 250 publishers have been hand-leveled.)
- Standards for a successful academic reading lifestyle (students should be reading for at least an hour a day.)
Excerpt from the IRLA
Alignment to Other Systems
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