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.

After a field test in 2006-2007, the Center for Innovation in Assessment is adding Grade 3 ITRI to our offerings for use during the 2007-2008 school year. These materials will be online by the end of August.