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=Running Record Resources =



If Running Records are taken in a systematic way they provide evidence of how well children are learning to direct their knowledge of letters, sounds or words.[|1]

A running record, a Reading Recovery assessment developed by Marie Clay, is a means of documenting a student’s individual reading of a continuous text. A running record can provide a way to assess an individual student’s reading, determine appropriate levels of text for reading, and to inform teaching. Taken at intervals, these records can show growth over time in reading skills.

Teachers of students in grades kindergarten through twelfth grade are frequently asked to administer running records and may even have a schedule by which students should be assessed. This assessment is time-consuming at first but becomes easier and quicker with practice and proper training. Teachers who master the taking of running records will be able to make powerful observations that can serve as immediate or long-term teaching tools. As noted by Peter Johnston, learning to administer running records and even to interpret running records is not merely the acquisition of the skills of symbolic note taking to document a child’s reading. Taking running records and incorporating running records into a classroom program means an acceptance of a whole way of thinking about the process of learning to read.[|2]


 * 1) Clay, Marie M., An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement (2nd ed.) (Auckland, New Zealand: Heinemann Education, 2002), 49.
 * 2) Johnston, Peter, Running Records: A Self-Tutoring Guide (York, Maine: Stenhouse Publishers, 2000).

Created by Jeanne Gunther for LEARN NC at http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/readassess/977.

Additional resources for Running Records can be found at: http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/literacy/running_records.html http://teacherpages.hallco.org/webpages/dfawcett/runningrecords.cfm http://eworkshop.on.ca/edu/core.cfm?p=main&modColour=1&modID=2&m=121&L=1

This website provides a detailed explanation of running records with numerous website references.