[LIT] Running records for middle school

[Heather Poland]

In my class I'm taking, what I read said that the pure Running Record (as in
Marie Clay's Running Record) should only be done with primary students. I
think the reasoning was because as you get older, most students read to
themselves and comprehend better when they read silently.

I do like miscue analysis, which is very similar to running record and is
included with informal reading inventories. For middle schoolers (and even
elementary) I think it is crucial to have the comporehension part, since a
student could be an excellent word caller, but not be comprehending.

On 7/4/06, TLP <tlinsb71 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Our NWEA testing ranks students according to their
> lexile levels. I still would like to do my own
> informal reading assessment. In the past I have done
> QRI and IRI and DRAs (if I were in Jaycees I'd owe 75
> cents to the container that we had to toss a quarter
> in for every time we used initials!) What do you do? I
> thought I would just do a running record and use my
> own judgment....If I see a discrepancy between the
> Lexile and my own evaluation could get more concise I
> guess.
>
> TLP
>
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