The point -of a miscue- is to explore the reader's pattern of miscues, not to establish a reading level by counting the number of miscues
Miscue Analysis Made Easy by Sandra Wilde
Chapter 5. Choosing Reading Material and Getting Started
I feel like this is the most common thought that teachers come to when they think about miscues. Even I thought that this was what miscues were all about. After reading for this week and especially reading this chapter I have come to notice the importance of miscues. They are not just some mistakes that students make. They are used to find that pattern and to help them with strategies to continue strengthening their reading. I know from last semester that we were taught how to conduct miscues, but again, never really understood how or why or what the purpose of it was. This book has opened my eyes to so much more than I thought. In order to establish a reader's pattern with miscues you need to get to know the students as a reader. Getting to know them involves giving a burke interview, or an interest inventory. But then you would need to think about making the student feel comfortable with you. You can accomplish that with a variety of ways. You could let the students give you an interest inventory, or make connections with favorite childhood books - like I plan to do when I get to meet my small teacher this week- or even by asking more personal questions about their life outside of school. For me and what I have come to understand with reading is that miscues are not mistakes, they are a resource for the teacher as well as the student to learn from.
- Quote on pg. 31 -