Taking Running Records Reference: Marie M Clay: An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement Second Edition.(2002) Chapter 5 pp 49-81

What is a Running Record? It is the most important task for assessing text reading A child’s reading is calculated on a piece of text; looking at their successes and their errors It shows what strategies they are using and ignoring when they are reading Competence at being fast, fluent and phrased A score is determined as a percentage of the words correct

Uses of Running Records Finding the appropriate book level for a child Grouping your children for guided reading groups Evaluate whether their has been a lift in text level Monitor what a child is actually doing while they are reading

Conventions

Analysis For any occurrences of error behaviour or self correction …. Try to work out whether the child was using information from: The meaning of the text (M) The structure of the sentence (S) Sometimes from the visual cues (V) To explain the error consider the behaviour up to the point of the error To explain self-correction consider what led the child to spontaneously correct the error (An observation Survey, pages 69-70)

Calculations Error Rate: Running Words Errors e.g. 150= Ratio 1: 10 15Accuracy 90% Self-Correction Rate E=SC e.g = Ratio 1:4 SC 5 ( An Observation Survey page 66)

Running Record Scoring Easy- any score over 95% Instructional- 94 to 90% Hard- 89% and below

How does the reading sound? At the end of running record, write down how it sounded Easy: Fast fluent phrased. Some intonation Instructional: Some phrasing, varing pace, some intonation Hard: Word by word, ignoring punctuation, laboured, ignoring meaning

When do you do running records? Emergent readers every 2-4 weeks Emerging: 4-6 weeks Competent: once a term Strugglers: Fortnightly