When scoring a reading passage is there a difference between proper vs. common nouns? If they miss a proper noun one time, do you continue to count it as incorrect throughout the passage?
Most often, teachers choose to have all words counted equally, so that if a student misses a proper noun, it counts as an error, just as a common noun would. If you have a passage with many difficult proper nouns (difficult names of people and countries, for example), then you may want to supply these words and not count them as errors. The most important rule is to be consistent. If you decide to supply difficult proper nouns, make some decisions about which ones you will supply, and then always supply those and count them as correct. In our research, we count a word as incorrect each time the student reads it incorrectly, even if it is a proper name. For example, if the student misses a proper name in the first sentence, and then says the word incorrectly again in the 3 rd sentence, this is counted as another error.
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