I spent time in a 1st grade classroom this week and conducted running records on two ESL students. Student A speaks Spanish and student B speaks Chinese. Student A struggles with English and she was given a running record for the end of the year and scored a 95/100, which puts her at an instrcutional level. There were some errors that she self-corrected and there were others that I noticed being more of meaning errors. Instead of saying "Saturday" she said "Sunday". She also replaced "say" with "saw". Both of these errors seemed to be meaning errors, and not syntax or visual errors. I also see both of these errors as being possible universal errors that all students would make. The days of the week fall back to back and I understand that some students would replace one with the other. When she said "say" instead of "saw", this is also a mistake many students would make because it is just the deletion and addition of the last letter. On the comprehension piece, she score 8/10, giving her an 80%. This put her at the independent/instructional level.
Student B speaks Chinese, but is an extremely bright girl and ended scoring 100/100, which puts her at the independent level. I was very impressed with her reading skills since her first language is not English. She also scored an 8/10 on the comprehension which puts her at the independent/instructional level as well. I was unable to find any errors in meaning, syntax, or visual since she score perfect on the reading fluency portion.
Both students seemed to score very well given that English is their second language.
Below is a website that I found helpful when figuring out the differences between meaning, sytanx, and visual cue errors.
http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/levels/runrecord/runrec.html
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