Summary for Goodman: The Goodman article focused on miscues and how teachers should analyze their readers’ abilities. First, the author explained that a miscue, like an error, is an unexpected response cued by the reader’s knowledge of their language and concepts of the world. All readers make miscues so it is important for the teacher to listen for miscues in their students’ reading. In order to analyze a student’s reading, there is a miscue analysis procedure discussed by Goodman that should be used. First, the reading must be new to the reader but have familiar material. The reading must also contain a beginning, middle, and end. Before the student starts reading, the teacher should go over the procedure that is going to occur during the analysis. While the student reads, the teacher marks notes on her own copy. After the reading, the student is asked to retell what he read. These are the basics of the procedure. The rest of the Goodman article went into even more depth on miscues and analysis by discussing research and providing examples.
Running Recording: The video shows a teacher analyzing the student’s reading. The teacher explained the process in a very positive way to her student to try and put her at ease and get her to read in the most natural environment possible. The only thing I would have done differently as the teacher, is I would not have said that I was going to look over the notes on the reading to “see if she grew up.” If you say that and the student does not move up to a harder level, then they student may become very discouraged. I would say, “I am going to look over these results to see what we need to work on next.”
Education Example: Running Record/ Fluency Test: This video show how the teacher scores the student when doing a fluency. Because she has the technology to do so, she records it for multiple reasons. She uses it to check her scoring, to let the student hear herself, and for the parents to hear it. By everyone listening to it they all know what they need to be working on together.
Quotes:
Goodman: “A major assumption of miscue research is that everything that happens during reading is caused by what the reader knows about language and the world.”
Goodman: “In miscue analysis, it is not the number of miscues that a reader makes that is important but the quality of those miscues. Quality is determined by the degree to which a miscue disrupts or enhances the meaning of the text.”
Example: This video does a good job of breaking down the process in a different way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL7zC6mbzEY