Teacher Copy: Assessment For Independent Reading Levels Levels L-Z (Fiction/narrative)
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Set 2
Level L
Levels L-Z (Fiction/Narrative)
Independent Level: Yes No
Reader’s Name___________________ Grade________
Date________________
Accuracy Rate: _______
Excerpt from Pickle Puss by Patricia Reilly Giff, pp. 4-7
Set 2, Level L 246 words
Oral Reading Rate ______
Book Introduction: Say this to the reader before he or she begins reading the student copy of the text: “In this story a girl
named Emily is looking for a good book to check out from the library when she meets a boy named Freddie. Please read aloud
the first section. (Point to the line on the student copy to show the child where the first section ends.) After this part, you may
read the rest silently. If you need to, you can reread the first part. When you are finished reading, I will ask you to retell or
summarize what you have just read.”
Running Record: For the first 100 words, record the reader’s miscues (or errors) above the words
During and after the
Running Record, you
as he or she reads. Later, you may or may not code them, using miscue analysis (MSV). Stop when
may make these
the child has made five miscues and go back to the previous level.
observations and notes
to inform instruction:
Just then Mrs. Baker came over. She smiled at them.
Self-corrects;
All her freckles crinkled up.
Pauses while
reading to think;
“I’m going to find a book,” Emily told her. “A good one.”
Uses more than
“Right,” said Mrs. Baker. “I’ll print your name on the chart.
one strategy to
figure out
Then every time you read a book, you’ll get a sticker.
unfamiliar words;
You can put it next to your name.”
Miscues make
sense;
Emily went to the shelves. She pulled out a book. Five Children and It.
Miscues fit the
It was too fat.
syntax or structure
of the sentence;
“I read that book,” said a boy.
Miscues look
Emily looked at him. He had a nice face.
similar to words in
the text;
He was the fifth-grade monitor in school.
Figures out the
“My name (100 words) is Freddie S.,” he told her. “That’s a good book.”
meaning of
unfamiliar words—
if the child
***** (Reader may read silently from this point on) *****
mispronounces a
word during the
running record, ask
the child if they
know the meaning
of the word when
they finish reading
the excerpt.
September, 2013
TCRWP
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