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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Incredible Shrinking Technology

Useful gadgets have grown smaller over time. Nonfiction, Lexile 910L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

Mystery at the Beach

A family solves the mystery of tracks in the sand at the beach. Fiction, Lexile 680L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

The Magnificent Macaw

The scarlet macaw, a bird of Latin America, faces problems but also has allies to keep it from becoming extinct. Nonfiction, Lexile 980L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

The Crash

On the planet Marva, adults are addicted to Superior Contact phones. Fiction, Lexile 910L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record