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.
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Animals Like to Eat

Animals like to eat different things. Nonfiction, Lexile 80L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

At the Playground

I can do many things at the playground. Fiction, Lexile 120L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

We Use Our Senses

We can use our senses to learn about things in the woods. Nonfiction, Lexile 90L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

I See Tall Trees

I see the life cycle of trees in the woods. Fiction, Lexile 120L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record