Introducing Running Records
As an educator, you may already be familiar with running records — short text passages students read aloud under your observation to assess their oral reading accuracy, comprehension, and fluency. Running records provide immediate feedback on your students’ reading progress and let you document it over time.
While one-on-one running record assessments have been used in classrooms for many years, LevelUp 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. These digital running record tools allow students to record assigned passages themselves, with the completed audio sent directly to your
inbox
to review and score according to your schedule.
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.
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