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

How to Penguin Dance

Here is how you do a dance called The Penguin. Nonfiction, Lexile 270L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

Fruit From My Garden

A boy can't wait to taste a strawberry from his garden. Fiction, Lexile 470L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

Steps to Make a Garden

Learn steps to make a garden. Nonfiction, Lexile 360L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

Sally's Bath

A child's dog runs away from its bath. Fiction, Lexile 420L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record