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Reading behaviors
In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.4
A blank sheet of paper or blank running record sheet, a pencil, and a carefully selected text are all the materials needed to capture a student's reading behaviors. The reading behaviors — including the student's physical actions such as eye and hand...
By Jeanne Gunther.
Running records and you
In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.1
If you teach in North Carolina, you are already "doing" running records. Your school mandates them as a means of assessing student reading. Hopefully you received some training for these assessments, but if your experience was like that of many teachers, you...
By Jeanne Gunther.
Running records as authentic testing
In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.2
In many school systems, running records are administered using preprinted running record sheets that contain the exact text the student is reading in a matching leveled book. To allow a teacher to administer multiple assessments with a single student, two...
By Jeanne Gunther.
Quantitative analysis
In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.7
By doing some simple calculations from your running record, you can not only get a better sense of how well the child is reading but select more appropriate texts for further running records. Error ratio The error ratio, the ratio of errors...
By Jeanne Gunther.
Practice story
In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.9
Ready to practice? Print out the following story and have a blank piece of paper or a blank running record form ready. Use the sound clip below to practice taking a running record of this child’s reading. First, record what the...
By Jeanne Gunther.
Instructional assessment: Finding teaching points
In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.8
Over time, running records can show patterns in student use of cuing systems and self corrections. But individual running records can also be useful in instruction. After each running record, a teacher can choose a teaching point, using the student's...
By Jeanne Gunther.
Portrait of a reader: Ben
In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 3.2
A fourth-grade teacher uses running records to uncover individual strengths and needs in a new student's reading.
By Jeanne Gunther.
Portrait of a reader: Rosalie
In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 3.1
I was setting up centers for the first day of class, which was still a week away, when Rosalie and her mother entered the classroom to meet me. Rosalie's mother explained that Rosalie was so excited about school and simply could not wait until the official...
By Jeanne Gunther.
Running record form
Blank running record form for use in reading assessment.
Format: document
Cross-checking: An early reading strategy
Beginning readers need to learn how to bring together two sources of information simultaneously. They have to think about what would make sense and think about letters/sounds; cross-checking. Most children prefer to do one or the other, but not both. Therefore, some children guess something that is sensible but ignore the visual (letter/sound) and others guess something which is close to the visual but makes no sense in the sentence. This activity will demonstrate how to cross check.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
By Jane Kate Blackmon.