Week 5: Running Record Practice

For this week’s practice running record, I worked with a fourth grade student named Anna. She read a passage about roller skating called “Let’s Go Skating”. I gave he a choice between two passages so that she could pick one she was interested in. My thought behind this was that she was more likely to comprehend and pay attention the passage if it was about something she found interesting. Per my running record calculations, Anna is currently reading at an error rate of 1:16. For every error she makes, she reads sixteen words correctly. He accuracy rate was at 94%, so this type of text would work for instruction in leveled reading, but wouldn’t be as appropriate for independent reading. However, she is right on the line of this text being easy enough for independent reading so I think with just a tad more practice, it would be appropriate for her independently. Where Anna struggles is with her self-monitoring. Her current rate is a ratio of 1:13, so Anna is not currently self-correcting or monitoring as she reads. As far as retelling goes, Anna was able to tell me the basics of the passage as well as provided specific things that were listed in the passage as what you need to roller skate.

For a mini lesson with this student, I would focus on self-monitoring while reading. I found that the scholastic website is a great resource that provides activity ideas for working with students on self-correction while reading. One activity I would contribute into a lesson would be following a discussion on how important it is to slow down and think about what you are reading. I would have the student read through the passage again, but this time stop and jot down notes, or things she wanted to remember, while reading. I would then have the student use a different passage and work through with sticky notes to mark down important information.

link to running record word passage: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Tvmik0ICUlVUJhT1JFd1lvSjRvMkRFR1hJalV4ejZxWFA4/view?usp=sharing