Running Record and Mini Lesson

I did a running record on a child that recently began reading with the passage, “The Chick and the Dog”. I will call the student Miley, she read a total of 114 words with 7 errors and 3 self-corrections.  This equaled out to an error ratio of 1:16, and accuracy of 94% and a correction ratio of 1:3. Overall I thought Miley was a good reader for her just beginning to fluently read. Her mom said that sometimes she becomes lazy when reading and begins to guess. I notice this problem while she was reading but I will just redirect her with encouraging words and she will pronounce the word out. I will also tell her to slow down because she was reading fast which is why I think she had the mistakes and would take a guess. After I did ask her what was the story about and she was able to tell me, so Miley had an understanding of comprehension.

To help Miley the small lesson I would create for her a word finding game like she has trouble pronouncing words and just guessing. I would have words separated on an individual index card laminated.  The full spelling of the word will be on top of each letter so the student can find the word and pronounce it at the same time. This helps the student with pronouncing the sound of the words. For example, one card will say “GOT” on top and in a bigger letter G, the next index card will say “GOT” and in a bigger letter O, the third card will say “GOT” and the letter T underneath. There will be many cards with different letters and words for the child to find when I scramble them up.