PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource Kit

Assessment is a crucial component of teaching literacy. 

Quality assessment ensures students are achieving and continuing to achieve success in their learning. The PM Benchnark Reading Assessment Resource is a comprehensive reading assessment resource designed to explicity assess students’ instructional and independent reading levels using unseen, meaningful texts.

The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource provides accurately levelled fiction and nonfiction texts, and provides clear guidelines for administering the assessment and analyzing the information as well as specific recommendations for future learning. The assessment process includes oral reading for determining miscue analysis and comprehension questions to ascertain the student’s level of understanding, as well as silent reading for the purpose of oral retelling.

The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource offers:

• quality reading assessment
• reading assessment resource that guides teaching practice
• system for accurate identification of students’ reading levels
• evidence of students’ achievement and progress
• vehicle for consistent assessment practices within and between schools
• data for school review and feedback

The information from PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource can be used to:

• identify each student’s pathway of progress
• provide students with informative and constructive feedback
• organize students into groups of similar learning needs
• plan individual, class and school programs
• report to parents and caregivers
• transfer information within and between schools
• develop school policies for literacy learning
• consolidate teachers’ professional development
• present data for class or school accountability