Running Record Response for Lehua

Well, I decided to reflect on my running record experiences rather than the chapter 3 response because I want to share what it was like from my perspective to do RRs with kindergarten students at Kapalama elem. At first, I thought that it would be impossible to do a RR with kindergarteners. However, Greg told me that they need one to one matching first. The one to one matching would therefore BE my running records. It's definitely challenging even to do RRs when it requires one to one matching. Like I said in our seminar, a few of the students are ESLL or come from the mainland where they have to still get adjusted to their new school.

First of all, one thing that surprised me was that they weren't trying to sound it out. I'd have to often say the sound of the first letter for them. Also, a lot of the students were noticing that I was taking notes with their name at the tops and it made them nervous. I had to remind some of them to look at the paper in order to read! I understand that at this level, they aren't totally familiar with letters and the sounds of letters but this grade is definitely on different levels. It was also hard to do with a bunch of students (I was reading them a one page booklet on Groundhog Day.) Well, good luck to the rest of you and I hope that you are going to get a lot out of the RRs!