Response to Intervention and 'running records'

As students develop their reading skills, it’s important to see if they are making growth with their reading skills and one way to do that is by doing running records. Teachers at Campbell Elementary School in Sterling, Colorado, participated in a running records training earlier this week, led by Margaret Clark, reading recovery teacher trainer for RE-1 Valley School District.

The purpose of Monday’s session was to help teachers understand what running records are and how they work. While some teachers knew about running records and have used them, others haven’t used them at all.

Running records are one of the things the teachers will use with the Response to Intervention (RTI) plan they’ve developed to help identify students who might have learning disabilities. Running records involve the systematic and objective recording of exactly what a student does. “It gives a picture of reading behavior,” Clark said about running records. Read more in the Journal-Advocate online.