Learning Opportunities

Benchmark Assessment

System 1- 3^rd Ed.

(Levels A- K)

Providing teachers with precise tools and texts to observe and quantify specific reading behaviors, and interpret and use that data to plan meaningful instruction.

Benchmark Assessment System 1 Professional Learning

Audience: K-2 classroom teachers, Resource teachers, Primary Consultants

• Designed for teachers using this Diagnostic Screening tool

• Highlights of the BAS System 1 Professional Learning

  • Let’s explore Benchmark Assessment- What is it? Components
  • Review coding, scoring, analysis of Running Records
  • Administering and scoring the Comprehension Conversation
  • Assessment Guide and the Recording Forms
  • Scheduling of BAS classroom assessments
  • Connecting Reading behaviors to assessment and instruction
  • Determining the 3 Levels of instruction
  • Analysis of data for classroom grouping
  • Documenting student reading progress

  Participants will be introduced to the online resource platform