The BAS Kit and Levels
The number of kits in the Benchmark Assessment System.
2
Materials needed to do a BAS with a student.
Pencil, Recording Forms, Books, Phone (for timing/calculator)
0-3
The 3 groups that comprehension key understandings are divided into.
Within, beyond and about the text.
On the recording form, E stands for ___ and SC stands for _____
Errors and self-corrections.
The two people who developed the BAS.
Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell
2 books. Fiction and Nonfiction.
The two scores at which a student will require explicit fluency instruction.
0 and 1
The section that requires the student to synthesize, infer, predict, and make connections.
Beyond the Text
The two places where I can find the max number of errors before a book is "Hard."
On the recording form and in the bottom left corner of book.
Instructional
The documents that help me code the RR and score the comprehension section.
Coding Sheet and Comprehension Rubric.
Talking
What you should say if a student is reading words directly from the text during your comp discussion.
Can you say that in your own words?
The first thing that I should do when starting a conference with a student.
Read the book introduction to the student.
Record this level and use it to inform your instruction.
Instructional
Places where I can look to find a leveling chart.
On the BAS Summary Forms. Also, there is a Leveling chart.
Fluency scores are/are not considered when determining level.
They are not. However, if the score is low, this may impact the student's recommended placement level.
The text that you should reference to learn more about which comp skills to explicitly teach at each GR level.
Literacy Continuum
The place where I record all of the books that we read in a conference.
BAS Summary Sheets
The levels that Kit 1 includes and the levels that Kit 2 includes.
Kit 1 includes levels A-K. Kit 2 includes levels L-Z.
The two scores that are taking into account when calculating whether a text was independent, instructional, or hard.
Accuracy percentage and comprehension total.
The 6 dimensions of fluency.
Pausing, phrasing, stress, intonation, rate, integration.
On the comp scoring key, 0 stands for ___ and 4 stands for ____
Not proficient and Proficient
Previous BAS or the Where to Start Word Test.