1. Running Records: Early Language and Literacy Certificate, Course 1
Class 10
Guided Reading Plus

2. Don’t Forget Reminder: NO class next week, Feb 7!
Registration Deadline is Feb 15
For PDU and Adams State
Both free – Adams State reimbursed in May upon successful completion of the class
Directions were sent out via

3. Housekeeping Daily Miracle Vitamin (from class 8) How’s it going?
Remember, it’s not about learning to spell and remember specific words, it’s about learning to look at parts of words.

4. Quiz: Lesson Components
Put the following lesson components in order:
Reading Day
Strategy discussion
Book orientation
HFW
Meaning discussion
Word Study (phonemic awareness or phonics)
During reading
Writing Day
Writing Discussion
Writing About Reading
Teaching Points
Strategy Discussion
Running Record

5. Homework Review
Thinking about the article you read on the three types of writing, share something you tried for:
Interactive writing
Dictated writing
Independent writing

6. Homework Review
The prompt CAN be the same for all three types of writing, what you DO with it is different
Should ‘spiral through’ all three types of writing
At level 14, dictated and interactive writing are still used, but ‘taper off’ in favor of independent writing
Independent writing is NOT the independent writing of writer’s workshop – it’s VERY guided independent writing

7. Essential Question Why do I need to interpret a running record?
How do I use a running record to determine next step(s)?

8. Foundational Understandings
Good readers use strategies to initiate efficient problem-solving plans, monitor their actions, and redirect their thinking when meaning is threatened.
What does this mean to you?

9. Foundational Understandings
These higher-level thinking processes are related to three functions:
I know what I know
I can focus on what is important
I need to remember this

10. Foundational Understandings
Good teaching must enable poor readers to develop these processes - the ability to monitor and search.

11. Discussion
What does it mean to monitor?
What does it mean to search?

12. Foundational Understandings
Monitoring is noticing
Searching is seeking more information

13. Foundational Understandings
You can monitor for M,S,V
You can search for M,S,V
So, how do we know how a child is monitoring and searching?

14. Foundational Understandings
When we MSV a rr, we are analyzing the errors to see what’s good about them.
Errors tell us how the child monitors & searches.

15. Running Record Practice
Take, score & analyze rr (#4 – The Bicycle)
Review
Interpret rr (#4– The Bicycle)
Use Reading Focus Area Handout
How does the child appear to monitor with Meaning? Structure? Visual information?
How does the child appear to search with Meaning? Structure? Visual information?
Next step?

16. Running Record Practice
Analyze rr (My Dad)
On your own – Will take and collect rr next time
Review
Interpret rr (My Dad)
Use Reading Focus Area Handout
How does the child appear to monitor with Meaning? Structure? Visual information?
How does the child appear to search with Meaning? Structure? Visual information?
Next steps?

17. Running Record Practice
Interpret Your Own rr
Use Reading Focus Area Handout
How does the child appear to monitor with Meaning? Structure? Visual information?
How does the child appear to search with Meaning? Structure? Visual information?
Next steps?

18. Essential Question Why do I need to interpret a running record?
How do I use a running record to determine next step(s)?

19. Essential Connections
LEAP
MCD: methods & pacing, academic language
HIIM: check for understanding, feedback
English Language Learners
Oral Language Development
Academic Language
Common Core Shifts
Nonfiction
Evidence
Increasing text complexity

20. Homework READ DO Be READY WRS: 47-53 - Analyzing Reading Behaviors
Reflect on reading
Reflect on class
BRING to next class
Next class powerpoint (for notes)
ALL handouts received thus far
Be READY
To take, score, analyze & turn in a running record