How Do I Monitor My Students' Progress?

In order to monitor your students' progress you should be completing Running Records. A running record is a method of assessing reading that can be done quickly and frequently. It is an individually conducted formative assessment, which is ongoing and curriculum based. It provides a graphic representation of a student's oral reading, identifying patterns of effective and ineffective strategy use.


In order to calculate a record you need to divide the total number of words the child read correctly by the total number of words they read (we count the following miscues as errors:  substitutions, reversals, mispronunciations, omissions, long pauses, insertions)

#Correct     (divided by)    #Total words

There are three levels of difficulty for kids when reading books:

Easy........Independent......95%-l00% accuracy
Medium....Instructional.......90-94% accuracy
Hard.........Frustrational......below 90%