ePIRLS Reading Practice is a Bookiverse initiative that gives students a way to rehearse the kind of reading comprehension measured by IEA's PIRLS and ePIRLS assessments before they sit a real administration. Each practice assessment presents an original passage set — never a reproduction of a copyrighted PIRLS text — followed by multiple-choice and short written-response items that span the four comprehension processes PIRLS reports on: focus and retrieve, make inferences, interpret and integrate, and evaluate and critique. After submitting, a student receives a scale score mapped to the PIRLS International Benchmarks, together with a breakdown by reading purpose and comprehension process, so the practice experience mirrors the structure of PIRLS reporting as closely as a self-scored, browser-based exercise reasonably can.
The practice assessments and games are in English. They can be used by all schools and teachers that teach English as a first language or use it as a medium of instruction, and that take part in PIRLS in English. For 15-year-old students, Bookiverse also offers PISA Reading Practice.
Ten practice assessments are available below. Each one is a full four-block reading test — two literary passages, one informational article, and one ePIRLS-style simulated-internet research task — with its own original passage set and item bank.
Assessments are added to this page as they are published; a link above will lead to that assessment once its file is in place in this same folder.
For a more playful way to build the same PIRLS-benchmarked reading skills, try the Reading Expedition game series below. Each one is a journey-map adventure that moves a reader up through the PIRLS International Benchmarks — Low, Intermediate, High, and Advanced — one themed leg at a time.
Each game tracks progress in the browser on this device, so a reader can leave and pick up where they left off.
PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) is administered internationally by IEA every five years to fourth-grade students, and reports reading achievement on a 300–700 scale against four International Benchmarks. ePIRLS is the digital extension of PIRLS, assessing online informational reading through simulated websites and research tasks. The links below go to IEA's own PIRLS resources, not to Bookiverse content.