Coming January 2009... the new PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource

The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource is a comprehensive reading assessment resource. It has been designed to explicitly assess students’ instructional and independent reading levels using unseen, meaningful texts.

The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource provides accurately levelled fiction and non-fiction texts ranging progressively from emergent levels to reading age 12. The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Teachers’ Resource Book provides clear guidelines for administering the assessment and analysing the information as well as specific recommendations for future learning.

PM Benchmark Assessment &
Profiling Software

Previously published PM Benchmark Kits

What's new in the PM Benchmark 1 Reading Assessment Resource?

• 46 brand new texts - 16 more than the previously published kits
• 1 fiction text for levels 1-14
• 1 fiction and 1 non-fiction text for levels 15-30
• A range of text types introduced at appropriate levels
• Improved student records to record fluency, knowledge and skills, strategies and a scored retell
• A Procedures Card, a handy summary of reading assessment proceduresDVD with video footage modelling reading assessment procedures and FAQs
• Convenient carry box with handle.

What can information from the PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource be used for?

The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource can be used to:

• identify each student’s pathway of progress
• provide students with informative and constructive feedback
• organise 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
• guide the purchase of resources.