For
Miss Judah, I chose a passage from a children’s story book. She did very well
while reading the passage. She stumbled on a few words, but ultimately did
amazing. She surprised me by knowing some of the larger vocabulary that I
initially thought would present an issue. The following is the passage and
notations that we looked at this week.
From
Winnie the Pooh’s Bedtime Stories:
“It was the time of year that the A V inhabitants of the Hundred-AV Acre Wood called
fall because that was when the leaves on the trees decided to do just that.
Transforming from green to all those bright autumn tints and T Vhues was
obviously quite exhausting. So, before the cold of winter arrived to SCredden the ends of noses and SCtickle toes (no matter how warmly cradled in sensible boots, and
stockings so woolly that Oa pastureful of them
would make a SCshepherd look twice), the leaves
would drift drowsily down to sleep away the season under the blankets of snow
that would soon be arriving.
Making sure the leaves were arranged
properly for their winter’s nap was a responsibility Winnie the Pooh and his
neighbors took very seriously, or as seriously as a bear of very little brain
could take anything that didn’t involve eating.”
Miss Judah only made two countable
errors according to the chart provided through taskstream. Out of 104 words,
Judah missed omitted one word and was told one word. According to the accuracy
chart, Miss Judah garnered a 98% accuracy rate. Her self-correction ratio is
1:22. This means that the first text I chose was an “easy text” and the
taskstream Running Record recommends that I “move the child to a higher text
level.” I had a feeling this might be the issue as I am a novice to teaching
and was unsure what a third-grader’s reading level should be (other than
googling some ideas). We will attempt a longer portion of text next time as
well, as I believe that may have been part of the issue as well. I was not sure
how long of a passage I needed for this assignment. So, next time we are going
to focus on Hamlet, that’s totally a
joke.
As for Judah’s Reading Behaviors, she
did great at sounding out the words she did not know and when she came to the
word “acre” she pronounced it “Ack-ree” and immediately said, “that just
doesn’t sound right.” Judah was very self-aware of the words she stumbled on
and had a great rate of self-correction.
All in all, I was very pleased with Miss
Judah’s results and feel that once I have selected appropriate texts, then we
will really see what we need to strengthen and focus on. Miss Judah was
accurate when she said, in the reading interview, that when she comes to a word
that does not make sense or is difficult to pronounce, she asks for help.
That’s great—she certainly did. I wish all people were so eager to ask for
assistance when necessary.
Hi Shannon! I agree that students are constantly surprising us with what we think they know versus what they actually know.
ReplyDeleteAccording to your running record, Miss Judah did do a wonderful job reading. If you go to Scholastic Book Wizard (http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/) you can look up grade level equivalent, reading levels and lexiles. According to that site, the book you chose was a Reading Level "O", which is a 3rd grade level book. If you go to this site, it tells you more about where students should be according to their grade level (http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/guidedreading/leveling_chart.htm). I would like to know more about what your school uses for reading assessments and progress monitoring students? Here is another great site to assess students to help guide your instruction (https://www.easycbm.com/).
Shannon, I agree that I was also unsure of how long of a passage would be appropriate for this assignment. The passages used in Kindergarten are not very long, but my passage was only four sentences so I believe that the percentages I got were invalid, but I could be wrong. I think that the results you received were a good fit for the passage. I would like to see how she does on a harder leveled text. I'm sure she'll surprise you once again! :)
ReplyDeleteHi Shannon! It sounds like Miss Judah is a great reader and is above level! I am WOWed at the fact that she understands when words don't sound right and corrects them automatically. The student that I am tutoring is actually significantly below level, so we are working with easier texts. Sometimes she catches words that don't sound right, but most often I have to stop her and ask if that sounds like a word she knows. I can't wait to see what happens when Miss Judah reads a harder text and am curious to know what level she can read on.
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