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** A process for assessing **

**//Portfolios//**
Portfolios are compilations of children’s work that show important aspects of development over a period of up to a year. This includes a range of student’s work and evidence of achievements, reading logs, reading profiles, running records and checklists.

**//Running records//**
Running records provides a record of a child’s reading of a short book or a passage from a book. Records are used to see if a book is at the right level of difficulty for a child and to match children with appropriate books. This also provides an indication of a child’s strategies as they try to work out unknown words. The following is an example of a running record taken from Hill, (2006 page 162).


 * Figure 1.2** An example of a reading behaviour record



**//Reading//** **//checklists//**
Reading checklists is a useful procedure for guiding our observations and recording the results of the observations. Figure 1.3 is a simple checklist for basic concepts about print. The points of behaviour are often related to expected learning outcomes. This is one of many ways of recording student achievement outcomes.

**Figure 1.3** A simple checklist