Taking Running Records, Grades K-12 - 312

This 5-hour course is designed to teach participants how to take and score running records for use as baseline, midline, and end-line assessments in grades K-5. By matching students’ instructional and independent reading abilities, participants will understand how to use running records to effectively match, select, and scaffold readers throughout appropriate text.

Course Outcomes:

• Understand the value of benchmark assessments that incorporate qualitative judgments and quantitative analysis of student outcomes.
• Learn and practice with taking and scoring running records.
• Learn how to administer all facets of running records to assess all facets of oral reading, phonics, and fluency.
• Practice with scoring, analysis, and interpretation of running record data.
• Use data for planning and on-going instruction.
• Understand the distinction among Independent, Instructional, and Hard levels of reading in order to properly align and scaffold learners' needs to matching readers to appropriate text.