Overview

Module Three provides information about administering a running record calculating text difficulty and assessing text understanding. It is designed to be completed over two weeks.

View a video of a teacher taking a running record as a student reads. Choose either best quality (6MB) OR average quality (3MB).

Then you will look at how to structure questions to determine the students' levels of understanding when reading an instructional text.

Following Module Three, your first task will be to administer and score running records with your students to determine their instructional level. Your second task is to determine each student's understanding when reading a familiar or independent level text.

Requirements

You will need to:

• gather the resources from the Module One sleeve in your resource folder.

Have with you at the computer the following:

• Running Records for Classroom Teachers, Marie M. Clay, 2000
• pencil and paper
• copy of the conventions for taking running records.

To view or listen to media elements within this module you will need to have Apple Quicktime™ and Adobe Acrobat™ installed.

Use the following links to download and install the software if necessary: