The run record [or modified error analysis] refers to each error that the student reads aloud and the teacher records on the copy of the text. It is an important assessment tool for the following reasons:

• First, it allows the teacher to determine the appropriate level of reading for the student.
• Second, it reveals that students self-monitor their reading.
• Finally, it identifies the reading strategies that students are using [or not using].

Operational records allow teachers to run assessment-oriented differentiation programs to meet the specific needs of students.

What is a running record?

Error analysis

• Errors are not just “spoken reading errors,” but a way to understand a child's existing reading strategies and help them learn new strategies that are more effective.

Operation record

• The “running record” is a simplification of the teacher and can be used for error analysis in the busy classroom [Clay, 1985]. PM benchmarks are an example of commercial resources…

Operational record of intermediate text reading and error analysis was originally published on Spring