Running Records

Informal – Regular basis, checking skills for guided reading, seen texts (Formative)

Formal – Benchmarks, unseen texts (summative)

Teacher Told – 3 seconds, this is so their comp does not get mixed up.

Proper names – Only mark the first error, then only marking the behaviour from then on. (Only marked once as an error).

Meaning:

-       Do I understand what they mean by this? Is the child making sense of the story?

-       Does it make sense in the context of the story?

Structure:

-       Is it grammatically correct?

Visual Information:

-       Does it have a similarity? letter in common?

Marking/Analysing

-       Read up to the error and stop. Analyse up to the error.

-       Double error, does it make sense up to the error?

-       1: MSV – What they did to make the error.

-       2: MSV – What they did to correct it (if they did). What is the strategy they are using to make the self-correction?

Re Run

-       Going back and re reading the sentence. Arrow with an R.

Self-correct

-       Self-correct immediately write above.

Behaviours

-       ATT appeal to teacher. (Want them to be independent, but gives good information).