Strategy
Running Records
UDL 6.4
UDL 8.4
A Running Record is an ongoing formative assessment that helps teachers identify a student’s independent reading abilities and comprehension of a leveled text. While administering a Running Record, a teacher reminds students to use word-solving strategies and to cross-reference while reading since the student must read without teacher support. As a student reads a short passage or book at their anticipated independent reading level, the teacher uses specific annotations on a separate copy of the text to keep a “record” of the student’s performance (e.g., miscues, omissions, self-corrections, re-reads, substitutions). After reading, the teacher does not teach into errors the student made. Instead, the teacher assesses student comprehension by asking the student to summarize or answer literal and inferential questions related to the text.