[LIT] Running records with middle school students

[lbrazell at comcast.net]

 "Heather Poland" <hpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
The bold is my own :)
So I think part of it is that for Running REcord, the teacher does NOT have
a copy of the text and since there are so many words, it would be really
difficult to get all the checks down. It is more helpful to have a copy of
the text and mark the miscues, and that would be miscue analysis/IRI

Heather, 
Thank you for clarifying this.  When I wrote 'take a running record on a short portion of the text', I was referring to just marking and analyzing the errors...a miscue analysis.  I used the term 'running record' inaccurately!  

And, I only do this with struggling students reading below grade level, to try to determine what is difficult for the student.   A miscues analysis helps me know if I should focus my instruction initially on surface structure or comphrehension strategies. 

Lee