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Giants of the sea running record 2025

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The document is a recording form for assessing students' reading of the nonfiction book 'Giants of the Sea,' which focuses on whales. It includes sections for oral reading, comprehension conversation, and optional writing about what students learned. The book aims to educate readers about various aspects of whales, including their size, habitat, breathing methods, and life cycle.

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Begin by entering the student's name, grade, date, teacher's name, and school in the designated fields at the top of the form.
For Part One: Oral Reading, have the student read aloud from the book. Record start and end times for their reading session.
As they read, note any errors and self-corrections in the provided sections. Use this information to calculate accuracy and fluency scores.
In Part Two: Comprehension Conversation, engage with the student using prompts to assess their understanding of key concepts from the text. Score their responses accordingly.
If desired, proceed to Part Three: Writing About Reading. Provide a prompt for students to write about five interesting facts they learned about whales.

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What is a running record of oral text reading?

A Running Record provides you with a playback of an entire oral reading conference, including the smallest details on the readers attitude, demeanour, accuracy, and understanding. With this information, you can analyze behaviours, responses, competencies, initiatives taken, and in turn, determine instructional needs.

What is a running record for high school students?

A running record captures both how well the student reads (the number of words they read correctly) and their reading behaviors (what they say and do as they read). It can help match students with books that are right for them. Then, you can use subsequent running records to track the students progress.

What is a running record in school?

A Running Record is a tool for coding, scoring and analysing a childs precise reading behaviours. (Fountas Pinnell, Guided Reading p 89) The collection of Running Records provides an effective resource for analysing and reflecting on the teaching and learning in schools.

What is the basic running record?

Running Records provide you with an opportunity to analyze what happened and plan appropriate instruction. From Running Records, you have evidence of what the child is able to do, ready to learn, and learning over a period of time. Noted researcher Marie Clay designed this very effective and widely used tool.

What is the difference between a running record and a benchmark?

The running record allows you to record a childs reading behavior as he or she reads from the book. Reading A-Z provides benchmark books for this purpose. A running record form accompanies each of the benchmark books.

How many words do you need for a running record?

In order to give an accurate picture of a students reading, Running records should be taken on a passage of text with at least 100-150 words or the entire text if less than that.

What are running records for high school?

A running record assesses what a student knows and understands about the reading process. It also captures thinking, as demonstrated through reading behaviors such as the use of structural and visual cues. A running record records what a student says when asked to read a text of about 100 words.

Giants of the sea running record 2025

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