Miscue Analysis

I gave a running record to a native Spanish speaker and a native Russian speaker.  The Spanish speaking student was a 6th grader and the Russian speaking student was in 10th grade.  The age gap in these students did make it hard to notice any similarities or differences.  The 6th grader did a good job with her reading and  read 110 words per minute.  What appeared to be her issue was simply fluency, she was comprehending what she was reading and decoding words, but her pace was very slow. For this student I would recommend repeated readings of grade level text. The ideal place to accomplish this would be in a guided reading group.  She needs to practice intonation as well as pausing for punctuation and commas.  The Russian speaking student seemed to have a different problem with his miscues. As he read he seemed to skip words throughout the passage. He ended up reading 135 words per minute. I noticed that he read the same way he spoke. Many of the same words we left out.  My suggestion for this student would be tutoring both orally and reading. I think that if his attention was drawn to the way he was speaking he would have an easier time fixing the miscues in his reading.