38 Student Assessment Books

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 Grades K–2 • Levels A–N

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Excerpted from Next Step Guided Reading Assessment Teacher’s Guide, Grades K–2 © 2013 by Jan Richardson & Maria Walther • Scholastic Inc. 13

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 Reading Record Recording Conventions
When the reader . . .
Reads accurately
Substitutes the wrong word
Makes multiple substitutions
Self-corrects a previous error
Rereads a word or phrase
Inserts a word
Omits a word
Gets stuck, and you tell him/
her the word
Appeals for help, and you
respond, “You try it.”
Adapted from Clay, 2000, pp. 11–13.
16 Excerpted from Next Step Guided Reading Assessment Teacher’s Guide, Grades K–2 © 2013 by Jan Richardson & Maria Walther • Scholastic Inc.
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Use the following
conventions . . . Example How to Score
Make a mark over each word. Look at the big cat. No error
Write substituted word above 1 error
car
text. Look at the big cat.
Record all attempts. Multiple substitutions, not 1 error for each word in
corrected text
Multiple substitutions, No error, 1 SC
self-corrected (SC)
Multiple misreadings of names/ 1 error first time missed,
proper nouns no error after that
Misreading contractions (reads 1 error each time
contraction as two words or two
words as contraction)
Write the error over the word, car/SC No error, 1 SC
Look at the big cat.
followed by SC.
Draw an arrow back to the No error
Look at the big cat.
place where the student reread.
Write the insertion using a very 1 error per word inserted
Look at the big cat.
caret.
Write an O above the omitted O 1 error per word omitted
Look at the big cat.
word.
Write a T for “TOLD.” T 1 error
Look at the big cat.
Write an A. If the child then reads
correct word, no error
We like to make a dot for each
second the child is stuck to see A
Look at the big cat. If the child substitutes,
how long it takes him or her to ••• omits, or you have to
attempt a different strategy or provide the word, 1 error
appeal for help.
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