Raz-Plus provides printable, projectable, and eBook versions of our Benchmark Books as one of three parts
in our process designed to help find appropriate texts for beginning and developing readers and monitor their
progress toward reading success.
The Benchmark Books for Levels aa-J are one of three parts in a process that assesses reading behavior and
comprehension. Using the books with their running records, Retelling Rubrics, and Comprehension Quick Check Quizzes
provides an accurate measure of students' reading abilities.
Each level from aa-J has 1 fiction and 1 nonfiction Benchmark Book.
Only the first 100-150 words of each Benchmark
Book are used in Running Records.
Assign a Benchmark Book assessment by clicking on the Assign button on the book's thumbnail or landing page.
Kids A-Z will automatically have the student record a retelling and Comprehension Quick Check Quiz when the student finishes reading.
In the Kids A-Z Student Management hub, check your In Basket to find the student's recording and score the reading
behavior using the online running record form.
Check the student's scores again the expectations for a level.
See About Running Records for more details.
To reward students, be sure to turn on the incentives.
Using Printable Books
Provide a Benchmark Book the student has never seen before.
Observe and record the student's reading behavior using the book's Running Record form.
If a student scores 90 percent or higher, assess the student's comprehension using a
Comprehension Quick Check Quiz from Levels A-Z and the
Retelling Rubrics.
If a student scores above 94 percent on both the running record and the Comprehension Quick
Check Quiz, he or she is ready for the next level.
(For more details, see About Running Records.)
Use Benchmark WOWzers to reward
students' progress from level to level.
Enter the assessment results into the Kids A-Z Student Management hub so you can track
the student's progress all in one place.
Editor's Note: Foreign language
editions should not be used as formal assessments of a
student's reading progress in that language.