Taking Running Records

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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

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What is a Running Record?

• It is the most important task for assessing text
  reading
• A childs 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

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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

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Conventions
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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)

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Calculations

• Error Rate Running Words
• Errors
• e.g. 150 Ratio 1 10
• 15 Accuracy 90
• Self-Correction Rate
• ESC e.g. 155 Ratio 14
• SC 5
• ( An Observation Survey page 66)

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Running Record Scoring

• Easy- any score over 95
• Instructional- 94 to 90
• Hard- 89 and below

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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

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When do you do running records?

• Emergent readers every 2-4 weeks
• Emerging 4-6 weeks
• Competent once a term
• Strugglers Fortnightly