di: Why doesn't error limit in Rdg Mastery 1 begin until Lesson 84?

[randi saulter]

Great question.  Please make any responses that you receive public here.

Thanks!

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 8:45 AM Don Crawford <donc1950 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently saw a Reading Mastery 1 group in the early lessons who were
> making a lot of story reading errors. Of course, most of them were not
> passing their checkouts.  However, it seemed to me that the fact that they
> were making a ton of errors in story reading (two or three per sentence for
> most readers) would indicate they should re-do the lesson until they are at
> mastery--until they can read the story without a lot of errors.  But when I
> went looking for the "Error limit" on the story I discovered it does not
> appear until Lesson 84, when they graduate to normal print.
>      Anybody know why it was done that way?  Or anybody know a good reason
> not to implement a "error limit" of 5 errors starting right away in RM 1?
> The error limit for the checkout is 3, so 5 is generous. I just think we
> should give the teacher a concrete data point for deciding they are not at
> mastery and should do the lesson over.
>
> Don Crawford
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