How to take quick and easy reading running records

In the classroom life can get super busy.

If you're anything like me, doing reading running records can be time consuming and often consists of numerous interruptions!

From time to time an App comes along that can make a teacher's life a little easier. This is a paid App called Running Record Calculator (link here) but you can get a free version here that is easy to use but doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the paid App.

I particularly love this little App for taking running records and here is why:

YOU CAN RECORD STUDENTS

Listening to running records takes a lot of energy and sometimes you can miss an error or a self correction. This App lets you click Start Timer and it will record your student speaking.

YOU CAN PICK UP ERRORS AND SELF CORRECTIONS AS YOU RECORD

So once you start recording this screen comes up. As the student is reading you can quickly click on Substitution, Omission, Repetition, Appeal or Sounding Out.

So, for example, your student repeats a word. You click Repetition and are giving the option to click OK. Every time you do this it is recorded at the top (see the little R). Every error, SC etc.. is recorded along the top of the App as the student is reading.

Then when you have finished listening to them read click Done and it shows you on the next screen the number of SC (Self Corrections) and ER (Errors).