Assessing Reading Fluency with Running Records

In addition to in-take assessments and comprehension quizzes, LevelUp Reader includes running record assessments that teachers can assign at their discretion.

You may already be familiar with running records — short text passages students read aloud under a teacher’s observation to assess their oral reading accuracy, comprehension, and fluency. Running records provide immediate feedback on students’ reading progress and let teachers document it over time.

While one-on-one running record assessments have been used in classrooms for many years, LevelUp Reader automates and enhances the process with a set of intuitive, easy-to-use digital tools based on unique text passages that range in Lexile levels from BR70L to 780L:

LevelUp Reader makes running records easy for both teachers and students. When a teacher assigns a running record, the student reads and records a text passage aloud on their device. Once complete, the student is awarded 25 credits to use in LevelUp Land and the recording is sent to the teacher’s inbox. Key data is automatically tabulated and sent to Reports. Digital running records save valuable classroom time since teachers can listen to and grade them at their convenience.

Running record assessments are designed to complement Lexile scores, and do not take the place of intake assessments in assigning student reading levels. Running records help you assess reading fluency, detect problems with reading strategies, and determine where to focus your efforts with individual students. Their results have no bearing on student Lexile measures.