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

Homes High in the Trees

Members of the Kombai tribe live in hand-built tree houses. Nonfiction, Lexile 960L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

A Night in the Trees

A boy is nervous about camping overnight until he learns he'll be in a tree house. Fiction, Lexile 740L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

Making Cars

Learn how cars are put together. Nonfiction, Lexile 960L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

The Reading Chair

Daniella's father builds her a chair. Fiction, Lexile 760L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record