Week 5: Running Record

            Most of the struggles of this reader came from words that are uncommonly used in the 3^rd grade lexicon such as “drone”, “cell”, and “pleasant”. I think the best method to improve the student’s reading would be to make the student more familiar with these words. I would first read the story to the child again, stopping at difficult words to ask the student if he knows what they mean and explaining if necessary. After reading through the story and defining some of the difficult words, I would ask the student to read the story one more time by himself. In a situation like this where the majority of the student’s reading was excellent, I feel that a brief vocabulary refresher is all that is needed.