Okay, I must admit that this one was tough for me, I will have to contact the reading teacher that I have interviewed in the past and ask her “How long does it take to do a running record on more than one student, and when does she have the time?” I suppose if I was working with a child one on one that was mispronouncing words, while the child was reading a story to me, I would use a running record to dictate what level the child can read.
I did the running record on a piece of paper and wrote all the words down from the book, and while the child was reading I made a check mark above the word that the child had right, and wrote errors above the word the child had wrong on paper. When I was recording the child stopped and paused for a second and looked at a couple of words closely, and tried to figure out the sound of the words. I wrote small quick notes on the side, of what I was observing. As I was doing this running record my hand started to get weak after that assignment.
While I continued to do the running record, I notice at the end of the story, John Doe seems tired because the story was long. John Doe was trying to read the story a little faster, trying to get close to the end. John Doe did manage to read the story from beginning to the end. This was my first time doing a running record and I…show more content… This kind of data can help teachers give the best instruction to meet the needs of all students in the classroom. A running record can give the teacher an indication of whether material is being read is too easy or too difficult for the child. Secondly, it serves as an indicator of the areas where a child's reading can improve such as, if a child often makes word substitutions that begin with the same letter as the printed word, the teacher will know to focus on getting the child to look beyond the first letter of a