What do I do with the information from a running record assessment
What do I do with the information from a running record assessment?
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The information gathered from an Oral Reading Accuracy assessment, a type of running record, can be used to determine error, accuracy, and self-correction rates. To calculate a student\’s Reading Accuracy Rate, divide the total words read correctly by the total words read. For example, if a student read a passage containing 100 words and made 5 errors:
95 (total words read correctly) / 100 (total words read) = 95% word accuracy
Use the Accuracy Rate along with the information gained in the student\’s story retelling or comprehension questions to determine whether the text the student read was too easy, just right, or too difficult for the reader. Below is a general breakdown to use to help guide you when choosing texts for students.
Oral Reading Accuracy
What this says about the text
95-100%
Too easy; the text does not present a challenge
90-94%
Just right; the text is challenging but manageable
89% and below
Too difficult; the text is frustrating for the reader
If a student can read a book with 100% word accuracy but can only give a minimal retelling of the story, do not choose a higher leveled book.
We all read to get meaning. If children are not drawing meaning from a text, we need to help them become better at understanding what they read. Decoding accurately without comprehension is not enough.
What should I be looking for when I give an Oral Reading Accuracy assessment?
Giving an Oral Reading Accuracy assessment and asking a child to retell reveals many things about a child\’s reading ability. There are other things to look for as well:
Has the student mastered directionality, letter-sound correspondence, return sweep (i.e., sweeping back to the left on the next line of text), etc?
Did the student make \”good errors\” when phonetically reading a word (e.g., reading island as is land instead of eye land.
Even though the word was read incorrectly, the child did try to decode.)?Was there an attempt to self-correct errors?
Did the student attempt to decode an unknown word?
Was the student\’s reading slow and labored or fluent?
Did the student use expression while reading?
Printable assessment template: running record form.pdf (Teacher will use for progress monitoring in reading)
For helpful tips on administering an Oral Reading Accuracy assessment, running record with comprehension questions please view the video clips below.
A running Record of 6 year old boy
Links to an external site. Here is the video to watch to write the paragraph
Analysis of Running Record
Links to an external site.
Here is the video to watch to write the paragraphhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7qhJZzuiLQ
After viewing the Running Record of the 6-year-old and the teacher\’s analysis ,write a one-paragraph summary of the results and bullet point recommendations the teacher and you would make.
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