“Yes”: When _does come to something s/he doesn’t know, what do you think s/he does? “No”: Suppose _comes to something s/he doesn’t know.Do you think _ ever comes to something they don’t know?.When you’re reading and you come to something you don’t know, what do you do? Do you ever do anything else?.The BRI includes questions that probe students’ beliefs of what reading is, how it works, and who they are as readers. I use this information as I design strategy lessons and retrospective miscue analysis sessions with readers. Miscue analysis helps me understand where students need support and where I can use strategy lessons to build on their strengths so they read more efficiently and effectively.īefore I first read with a student I always begin with the Burke Reading Interview (BRI) because it gives me insights into the students’ beliefs about reading and themselves as readers. I’ve read with LOTS of readers and have yet to meet one without strengths. These include their focus on constructing meaning, their knowledge of grammar and phonics, their prediction and self-correction strategies, etc. By understanding miscue analysis I hear the wealth of strengths students reveal about themselves as readers.

Years later, through miscue analysis, I realize how off base I was then. What mattered then was only how the students ‘sounded’ as they read, whether they made ‘mistakes’ or not and how ‘fluently’ they read. There was a time in my life as a teacher that I didn’t consider what students believed about reading or themselves as readers when we read together.

WHAT MATTERS: CONTEXTUALIZING MISCUE ANALYSIS and KIDWATCHING by Diane Stephens February 26, 2016.

MAX’S 5-SECOND MISCUE by Kathleen Olmstead April 1, 2016.

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