Amy Peabody March 28, 2013 Professor Rich ELD 307 Running Record & Miscue Analysis

The approach to asking this student to participate in this assessment was to ask this student to help with a homework assignment. The student who participated in this assessment was Sanskruti, she is a second grade girl who is eight-years-old. Sanskruti is a very pleasant student with a positive attitude and is one of the most cooperative students I have ever had the pleasure of working with. This running record was taken to see if this student has progressed in their literacy skills and reading fluency, but also comprehension. Miss Refsin provided the story for the assessment; Sanskruti read the first four pages for a total of 303 words read. Sanskruti was informed that the process was for her to read and I would check for any errors and comprehension after the reading. This assessment was an interview based setting. Sanskruti left the classroom and went into the hallway with me during snack time; the purpose of this was so that she would not miss any class work or activities. Sanskruti read with poise and confidence. I was glad to see that Sanskruti was calm and not nervous. I was very impressed with how well Sanskruti read, she has a thicker accent and it is sometimes difficult to understand if you do not know what she is reading. Sanskruti read with 97% accuracy and self corrected herself 4 times; Sanskruti had only 9 miscues throughout the entire assessment. Sanskruti read did not as its contraction form didnt but then corrected herself and read it as two words. There was one word that she needed assistance on and that was yams, when this word came up for the second time she was able to read it without any trouble. One word that she needed assistance with was wasawusu, this word was repeated two more times which she needed assistance with both times. Sanskrutis level of comprehension was weaker than her fluency. When asked to summarize the events of the story they were retold out of order. Sanskruti did not use much detail when summarizing the

story and her ability to remember all of the characters was not very strong. Comprehension is where she struggles more than reading fluency. I shared the information from this assessment with Miss Refsin and she showed me a prior reading assessment that was given to Sanskruti and the results were similar. I asked Sanskruti to make a prediction of what she thought might happen next and her prediction was very creative, but did not follow the path where the story was going. Sanskrutis strengths were in reading fluency. She also read with expression and tone inflection; there were clear distinctions in Sanskrutis reading of dialogue and of normal text. Sanskruti also was very active with the words that were the animal sounds, such as: mek, wasawusu, kirk, kaa, kili. An area where Sanskruti needs improvement is comprehension. Sanskruti needs to be aware of what she is reading and the content more so than just reading the words. Reading for accuracy and fluency are great qualities but it is important to be able to retain what you read as well. If I were to give this exact same assessment again, I would have more questions developed to have more opportunities for the student to comprehend what they read. I would like to give this student a formal reading assessment where it is standardized. I observed Miss Refsin give a reading assessment to a student and they read a paragraph out loud for miscues, but then reread the paragraph on their own along with the rest of the passage. This formal type of assessment would help assess comprehension instead of fluency, and comprehension is where Sanskruti needs to further develop her skills. This passage had a total of 303 words and Sanskruti had 9 miscues. Her reading accuracy was 97% and she falls into the Independent reading category. Sanskrutis self-correction rate is 1:3; meaning that she corrects 1 out of every 3 errors, this also means that she is aware of her self-monitoring when reading. Her error rate is 1:33; this means that for every error made, she is able to read 33 words correctly. Sanskrutis reading accuracy and fluency is on grade level for a second grader this far into the school year according to Miss Refsin, but she does still need work on her comprehension.