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[missdbridges]

Self-correction is a tool for preserving or regaining meaning after it's been compromised by a miscue, a tool that good readers use productively.

Miscue Analysis Made Easy by Sandra Wilde

Chapter 8  Coding Miscues

There were so many great great quotes this week. This one was one of my favorites.  I never thought of self correcting while reading as a tool.  After i read this i started to realise that students self correct without even thinking about it.  Not only that but they also do it to help preserve meaning of the text. This also relates back to the quote that "All readers make miscues, and error-free reading comes only at the cost of sacrificing speed and efficiency." (Wilde pg.74).  Students are always going to make miscues.  They are making miscues to preserve that meaning, and if they aren't making those miscues then they are sacrificing those two components of reading and those two components are essential to meaning making as well.  

- Quote on pg. 63 -

[missdbridges]

Retrospective Miscue Analysis - it consists of asking readers to listen to the tape of their own miscues and helping them think about what they hear and further develop their strategies.

Miscue Analysis Made Easy by Sandra Wilde

Chapter 7 Conducting Good Retellings

Reflecting back on Chapter 6, "it never hurts to have the reading available on tape" definitely correlates with retrospective miscue analysis (Wilde pg. 37).  I think this is such a great idea!  Actually getting the students to see what miscues they make and to let them hear how they sound when they read would be such a great idea to get them to take control of their own reading and learning and to help themselves think of strategies.  It also is such "a powerful tool since the reader chooses miscues to think about" (Wilde pg. 60).  What the reader sees as a miscue might be something totally different from what the teacher would notice.  The reader might hold more accountability when seeing their own miscues in front of them.  Then as a team the teacher and the reader could discuss strategies that would correlate well with the miscues that are made.  I would just love to do this!  Then the students would actually see what the teacher sees.

- Quote on pg. 60 - 

[missdbridges]

I can't emphasize too strongly that the most important aspect of miscue analysis is it's influence on teachers' thinking, and that you need to have implemented the entire procedure, not just read about it, to truly understand it.

Miscue Analysis Made Easy by Sandra Wilde 

Chapter 6  Recording What Readers Do

This quote, just like the previous quotes from previous chapters in this book really hit hard on the fact that you need to really know the entire procedure in order to understand what and why you're doing it in the first place.  It also related to another quote in this chapter " it never hurts to have the reading available on tape" (Wilde pg. 37).  If you have the entire miscue recording on tape, then you will be able to understand the process even more.  You will have documented proof of the miscues and you will be able to pick up on so much more than without a recording.  You would be able to go back and really think about what miscues are being made and how significant they are.  I feel like that is a great idea and resource for a teacher as well as the student.  

- Quote on pg. 37 -

[missdbridges]

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 -