At the end of our three day weeks, I will be conducting running records to check if the phonics instruction I am providing is affecting my students' reading fluency. Here is a look at the recording form I gathered for this week. Student's names are pseudonyms.
Click here for the running record recording form
Looking at this and analyzing the results made me see what a gap I have in my classroom. Two of my students are below level and need extra interventions. I didn't do a formal miscue analysis, but I did try to note the types of miscues that I saw. These two students relied very heavily on visual cues to read unknown words, but didn't pay much attention to the meaning or structure of the text. Because of this, I will do some Cloze activities as well as Guess The Covered Word to help them think more about structure and meaning when they are reading. My goal is to increase fluency through phonics instruction, so I will tie these exercises to phonics by forcing the students to examine not only meaning and structure, but once they guess a word with meaning and structure in mind, to consider the letters and sounds of those words to determine the accuracy of the guess.
It sounds like you have some nice plans in place to for helping your struggling students to use decoding strategies! How are you getting your documents to link? I couldn't get this one to open, but have been trying to figure out how to add something other than a photo to my own blog. I can't figure it out.
ReplyDeleteI have to save Word documents to my Google drive. Then I create a link and copy and paste the address for the document in google drive to the link. You probably couldn't get this one to open because I created it on a really old version of Word. Thanks for letting me know.
ReplyDeleteI love how running records can give you so much information about your students. I just did one last week on my students and was so surprised at the information I found. I like that you listed some ways you are planning on helping your students after the assessment. What are some of the CLOZE activities that you use in your classroom? I have done these only once before in another class with a student I was tutoring, but I felt like I could have done more. I would love to have some CLOZE ideas. Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteKara,
DeleteI don't do anything special for Cloze. I just take something we are studying (usually in science or social studies) and I write a small passage on chart paper for them. I leave blanks in the passage for the students to fill in. My rules are that it can be silly or informative or whatever, as long as it makes sense. For some of the older kids, I would specify what part of speech it needs to be (verb, noun, adjective) kind of like a madlib.