Running Record- Week 4

Yes	Can the student tell you what happened in the story or the subject of the book in her or his own words?
Yes/Yes	Does the student include details about the characters in the retelling? Can she or he explain the relationships between the characters?
Yes	Can the student describe the setting? How detailed is the description?
Yes	Can the student recall the events of the story, and can she or he place them in the correct sequence?
Did not ask	Can the student identify the problem and the resolution?
Yes	Does the student use vocabulary from the text?
Yes	Does the student's retelling demonstrate minimal, adequate, or very complete and detailed understanding of the text?

The student reading skills is on grade level. The student made 11 errors. Most of the errors made were visual. Visual errors should be easier to correct than structure. The student will have to learn to track with their finger and read each word slower to pick up the mistakes. For example, the student left the “s” off of the word sides. The mistake can be correctly quickly by slowing down and pay attention to each word. The student fluency was average. The student primarily read in two-word phrases with some three and four-word groups and some word by word reading. There was no pausing guided by the author's meaning. The student comprehension skills reflected satisfactory understanding of the text.   The student was able to recall information from the story using the section vocabulary. The student recognized the relationship between a whale and fish. For example “The student mention that the whale and fish both have fins, and they both need food” The student also identified the differences between the whale and fish. For example “the whale and fish was born differently.”