The student that read this story, "Whales and Fish", was a good reader. She mostly tried to read the
words based on how they looked - the visual. When she saw a word that
she didn't know, she would look at the letters and said a word
that started with the same beginning letters that she saw. She never said
that she didn't know what a word was; she always tried to get it
right. Although she always tried to read the words, she didn't try to
make the words fit into the meaning or structure of the sentence. She
needs to have more practice reading for meaning instead of just
reading to have the words read correctly. She needs more practice
reading words that end in ough, because when she read a “ough”
word, she ended it incorrectly.
My reader was the same way. I think that she was putting all her concentrating on getting the reading of the words right, therefore, she couldn't concentrate entirely on the meaning of the text. When I asked what the passage was about after she finished reading, she was very vague and told me bits and pieces that were unrelated.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that she was wrong on some of the words. I think it's the way that she speaks. She might just have a slight lisp. When I was her age, I had to go to speech because I couldn't pronounce "r" correctly. It may sound like I was saying the wrong word, but I wasn't. I think it's the same case for her.
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting point. It seemed like she was reading just to have all the words read and not reading for meaning. I guess it is important for the teacher who is doing the running record to know if the student has any speech impediments.
DeleteChana,
ReplyDeleteGood analysis! And good discussion going on here. My question is: did you practice on the child in the videos I provided or a child in person. Please let me know. :-)
I did this running record on a real student.
DeleteI was recently at a workshop where the professor said how important it is to encourage students to ask when they have questions and encourage when they ask. It is very important to teach children that asking is a step of the learning process.
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