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Post-It note that says:
- strategies for getting attention (spelling went much better)
- reading went well
- running records
I vaguely remember doing running records at this school. We used them at my first school where I taught second grade. I love doing running records. It was the only thing we did that was like a test that gave hard evidence if they were learning or not. I loved using all the marks and abbreviations, and I still use them when I check a kid for fluency. (It’s fun!) The most useful part was analyzing the miscues and self-corrections to see what the kid needed, and then making small groups of kids who needed the same strategies. See, I was doing this ten years ago, and they had been doing it for a good while before I got there, which is why I was just incredulous when people here were complaining last year about using leveled readers for small reading groups. Hello, behind the times much??
