Teachers may need tools to use video for reflection toward ongoing toward education and teacher leadership. Based on Goodman's (1996) notion of retrospective miscue analysis, a method of reading instruction that revalues the reader and his or her strategies, retrospective video analysis guides teachers in appreciating and understanding their own…

This article describes a Tier 2 intervention program for fourth graders that is well suited to supporting implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Screening assessments and miscue analyses were used to clarify students' strengths and challenges. Students then attended only classes that were suited to their particular literacy needs,…

The possibilities of using Retrospective Miscue Analysis (RMA) with families to help parents and children investigate the reading process, are discussed with the goal of assisting parents to better understand their children's reading strengths. Highlighting a case study from a Family RMA project, this article illustrates how Family RMA provided a…

Teacher knowledge is important because it is related to student outcomes. The researchers of this article wanted to answer the following questions: (1) How do classroom teachers describe the reading cueing systems? (2) How do classroom teachers analyze running record information? and (3) How do classroom teachers implement classroom reading…

Argues that teachers, diagnosticians, and other educators need to reevaluate their thinking about reading. (Author)

Suggests a modification of the miscue analysis procedure for the classroom teacher's use. (MKM)

Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). (RB)

Suggests that time spent analyzing insertions and omissions in oral reading diagnosis might be better used on the more frequent, more distortive substitutions. (MKM)

Miscue analysis has been used by teachers and reading specialists for more than 30 years. Its purpose is to reveal strengths and weaknesses in how children process text and thereby inform instruction for individual learners. But is it still a useful approach? The authors assert that miscue analysis can indeed be a useful tool, though not for all…

Concludes that self-correction is a positive indicator that the reader is comprehending. (RB)

Describes a means of diagnozing the reading miscues of elementary level readers. (RB)

Offers suggestions for implementing psycholinguistic methods in the classroom. (MKM)

As children progress, they want their responses to make sense and they learn to use strategies based on meaning and language. (JM)

Describes the feedback to oral reading miscue analysis system (FORMAS), a systematic procedure for teachers to use in examining the characteristics and effects of their own feedback to students' oral reading miscues. (FL)

Differences between oral and silent reading suggest both must be assessed in order to reveal thought processes. (MKM)