Jaime- Running Records w/Kindergarteners

I also decided to write about my Running Record experience with my Kindergarten students. There are a few students in my class that can read. I’d say out of the 22 students, 4 girls and 1 boy can read fairly well in comparison to the other students. My mentor was very supportive when I told her I had to do 20 running records. She announced to the class that I’d be pulling them one by one so I could listen to them read. I decided to do make my work easy by doing a running record with one of the good readers. I chose to do my running record with a girl because I noticed she enjoyed stayed in the classroom. There were times when she’d go out to recess and then she’d come back inside and draw pictures or look at a book. So when the recess bell rang on Thursday, I asked her if she wanted to read to me and she was pretty happy about it.

The first thing I did wrong was that I chose the book for her. I realized after that I should’ve let her choose the book so that she would have ownership of the book. The book I chose for her the first time was very easy for her. She got every word correct and so I asked her to tell me if she thought the book was easy, just right, or hard. Of course she said, “Easy.” Then I grabbed more books from a box and just lay them on the table. I let her choose the book this time and she did pretty well again. I noticed she was using a lot of visual because if she got stuck on a word, she would look at the picture. I think next week I'll be doing more one to one matching instead of Running Records because I don't think the other 17 students will be able to read the 'Easy' books.