An ESL teacher assesses English language learners' reading rate by having students complete a weekly oral reading of a 100-word passage and monitoring the amount of time it takes each student to complete the reading. Which of the following additional assessment tasks would best help the teacher obtain an accurate measure of students' reading fluency?
  1. Students list unknown words from the passage in a personal glossary.
  2. The teacher dictates sentences from the passage and the students write them down.
  3. Students record a personal reflection about the passage in a journal.
  4. The teacher keeps a running record as individual students read the passage aloud.
Explanation
Correct Response: D. Reading fluency involves the ability to read a text accurately and at an appropriate rate. A running record is an assessment that allows the teacher to monitor the rate at which an individual student reads a passage aloud while also making a written record of the types of errors (e.g., misreading words, omitting words) the student makes. Monitoring accuracy in addition to rate provides a better measure of reading fluency than monitoring rate alone. A is incorrect because having students list unknown words from the passage in a personal glossary would be more appropriate for monitoring the students' vocabulary knowledge than their reading fluency. B is incorrect because dictation is more appropriate for assessing skills such as auditory discrimination and/or knowledge of English writing conventions (e.g., spelling, punctuation, grammar). C is incorrect because having students write personal reflections about a text would be more appropriate for assessing their comprehension and literary response skills.
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