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

Steeplechase Park

Steeplechase Park was an amusement park on Coney Island. Nonfiction, Lexile 1110L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

The Coaster Club Challenge

Twins each hope to win a trophy for riding the most roller coasters. Fiction, Lexile 940L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

The Green Town of Greensburg

Greensburg, Kansas, was destroyed by a tornado, but its residents rebuilt it as the first entirely "green" U.S. city. Nonfiction, Lexile 1110L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record

The Solar Car Race

A team in the Solar Car Challenge race must quickly fix a problem. Fiction, Lexile 1010L
  • Assessment Passage
  • Quick Check
  • Running Record