About Running Records

Digital
Running Records
on Raz-Plus

With our online running record tool, Raz-Plus or Raz-Kids members can:

  • Assign a Benchmark Volume from Levels aa-J
  • Assign a Benchmark Passage from Levels aa-Z2
  • Heed to students' recordings from reading aloud a book or passage.
  • Score all student recordings using an online running-tape tool.
  • Heed to students' recordings of retellings.
  • Score retellings using an online rubric.
  • See quiz questions missed and a written report on which comprehension skills to back up or re-teach with each pupil.
  • Reward students' progress through application stars to spend in the RAZ Rocket.
  • Rail your students' progress over time.

Running Records are one function of a three-role process to place students in instructionally appropriate level texts and make up one's mind whether or not students are fix to movement up a level.

Part 1: Students read Benchmark Passages or Benchmark Books (Levels aa-J), and you capture their reading behavior on Running Records.

Office ii: Students retell the text, and yous use Retelling Rubrics to score their comprehension.

Part 3: Students take an oral or written Comprehension Quick Check Quiz, and each question's answer tells what skill information technology assessed to help you identify comprehension skills for additional practice.

Part 1: Mind to & Record Reading Behavior

Running Records allow you to appraise reading behavior as students read from developmentally appropriate texts. They are used most oftentimes at the earlier stages of reading to monitor reading behavior and progress.

How to Employ Running Records
Apply the three-office cess process at the offset of the school year to place students into advisable texts, and use the procedure throughout the year to monitor students' progress according to the schedule below.

  • Each Benchmark Passage, Benchmark Book (Levels aa-J), and Spanish Benchmark Passage comes with a customized Running Record.
  • Use a blank English Running Record or a blank Spanish Running Record to perform running records on text other than those provided.

Cess Schedule
Developmental Level Reading Level Schedule
Beginning Readers Levels aa-C every 2 to 4 weeks
Developing Readers Levels D-J every 4 to six weeks
Effective Readers Levels K-P every 6 to 8 weeks
Automatic Readers Levels Q-Z every 8 to x weeks

Students who are not progressing at the expected rate should exist assessed even more than often than the Assessment Schedule suggests.

Taking a running tape takes practice. Earlier attempting a running tape, read the procedural steps on taking, mark, and scoring a running record.

Taking a Running Record Marking a Running Record Scoring and Analyzing a Running Record

How to Choose an Assessment Text
Views differ as to whether students should exist assessed using text they have never read or familiar text. Nosotros believe using a previously unread text volition give a more authentic measure of a student's power to read and cover text at the assessed level.

You can always have students read a Criterion Passage or Benchmark Book (Levels aa-J) earlier doing a running record if you adopt using previously read text.

You lot tin can also employ the fiction-nonfiction passage pair on the aforementioned topic at each level. Utilize one passage from the pair to back up a student's understanding of the topic before assessing with the other passage.

Parts two & 3: How to Appraise Comprehension

Parts two and three of the 3-office cess process provide details well-nigh a student's understanding and comprehension using retellings and Comprehension Quick Cheque Quizzes.
  • Retelling Rubrics provide details that identify strengths and weaknesses students might have comprehending fiction or nonfiction texts; including analysis of text structures.
  • Benchmark Passages and Benchmark Books (Levels aa-J) accept multiple-pick Comprehension Quick Check Quizzes and master keys. Apply the skill tags on the answer key to see comprehension strengths and opportunities for additional education.

Placing and Moving Upwardly Students
Apply the nautical chart below along with the other information you learn from the three-function assessment procedure to determine if students are ready to move up a level.

Scores

Running Tape Quick Check Comprehension Quiz Action
95% + 100% Advance Educatee a Level
95% + 80% Instruct at this Level
95% + <80% Lower a Level, Assess Again
xc-94% 80-100% Instruct at this Level
ninety-94% <eighty% Lower a Level, Appraise Over again
<90% N/A Lower a Level, Assess Over again

How Do I Advantage Students' Reading Progress?