taking running records reference: marie m clay: an observation survey of early literacy achievement...
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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
ConventionsConventions
AnalysisFor 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
15 Accuracy 90%• Self-Correction Rate
E=SC e.g. 15+5 = 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