Since I do not currently have my own classroom, I thought back to my student teaching experience and the time I spent leading guided reading groups and working one-on-one with students. Immediately, one student in particular stuck out to me. This student was a slightly below level reader, and struggled with comprehension and fluency. His reading was always very choppy and sounded much like a computer program when they read aloud. When looking at Table 1.1 I noticed that he was a less proficient reader, because he was constantly attempting to identify all of the words correctly. In fact, if you were to look at his running record it would have hardly any miscues. He was focusing all of his energy on correctly identifying the words in the passage, rather than gaining meaning. I constantly told this student that it was okay if he made mistakes, and that I wanted him to be able to tell me what happened in the text after he was finished reading.
The last reading course helped me to understand how important reading comprehension is and how miscues can often be misleading. The student I was working with could have had more miscues throughout their reading and still been a proficient reader if he was able to determine meaning from the text. Ultimately, I would have liked to have monitored his progress, but since it was during my student teaching I don't know how the student has progressed now.
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