Benchmark Passages & Running Records

Target students' instructional needs by assessing their reading skills with developmentally appropriate texts while recording reading behavior. Benchmark Passages are short text selections that are one part of a three-part process to provide effective reading instruction for students and to assess their readiness to progress to more difficult text.

Digital Running Records on Raz-Plus

With our Online Running Record tool, Raz-Plus or Raz-Kids members can:
  • Assign and listen to recordings of Benchmark Passages and Books.
  • Score recordings using an online running record tool.
Showing 4 of 116 Passages

Monkeys Have Many Feelings

Monkeys can have the same feelings we do. Nonfiction, Lexile 150L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

It Is a Birthday Party

A child has a birthday party with friends. Fiction, Lexile 170L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

What Will You Have At a Party?

Learn what you will do at a birthday party. Nonfiction, Lexile 90L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

The Moon Can Look Different

Many things are under the orange moon. Fiction, Lexile 150L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record