Early+Literacy+Assessment

=__Early Literacy Assessment__=

A way that a teacher keeps track of students improvement in reading is referred to as a **Running Record **. **Running records ** allow a teacher to assess a student individually and help identify the standard the student is at. It helps the teacher keep a monitored report on the child's progress and how fast they are improving in their skills and also allow the teacher to get a picture of how difficult the text is for the child and if they can cope. If the text may be identified as too easy for a particular student, the teacher may move this child/student into a higher reading group where the text is more difficult.

For example a student may read a passage from a book, the teacher has a sheet with all those words. The teacher follows closely and marks with a tick if the student gets the word correct. If the child says the wrong word in place of another, you put a line above the text word and write the word they said above it, this is recorded as an error. If the child attempts the word gradually working up to it and getting it right, you record the attempts above the text word and this is recorded as no error. In a case similar, if the child says a wrong word to the text then corrects his/herself this is recorded above the text word but again is recorded as no error. These are just a few of the running record examples there are more such as repetition, pausing, sounding out etc.

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Here is an example of a **Running Record ** sheet a teacher has made. You can see ticks for correct words, R for repetition, SC for self correction, another word above the text word for the wrong word used and dashes for leaving the word out.