This mark is used to show accurate reading of words.
What is a check mark?
100
Substitutions, insertions, omissions, and tolds are scored as one of these.
What is an error?
100
Phrasing, intonation, using punctuation, and rate will help you to analyze a reader's ability to do this.
What is read fluently?
100
This is the place to go to find the coding "at a glance" reference page?
What is the assessment guide?
100
This action is taken when the administrator of the benchmark does not prompt or support in any way.
(This ensures the benchmark will show what a student can do independently.)
What is stay neutral?
200
Substitutions are errors, except when a student does the following.
What is self corrects or it is the 2nd time a proper noun is read incorrectly?
200
Name one thing a reader may do while reading aloud that does not result in an error on a benchmark?
What is a self-correction, an appeal, or a repetition?
200
What rate will help a teacher to decide if a child is monitoring his/her reading?
What is self-correction rate?
200
This is the resource you may use to copy additional protocols.
What is the CD rom or the Assessment Form Book?
200
This is the level the district asks us to report on Partners for Results.
What is the instructional level?
300
Repetitions of words, phrases, or sentences are not counted as errors, but are recorded in this way.
What is a letter "R" immediately after the word or with an arrow to the place where the rereading began?
300
This is how to calculate accuracy.
What is take # of words read correctly divided by the total number of words in a passage?
300
Having a conversation with the student and noting the key understandings that a student expresses (both with and without prompts), will help the teacher to gather information about a child's level of this.
What is comprehension?
300
The introductions to the benchmark assessments are located on these two places.
What are the protocols and the front of the assessment books?
300
The approximate number of seconds/wait time to give a child who makes no attempt and does not appeal.
What is 3 seconds? (Then give the child a told.)
400
This error is recorded as 1 error the first time it is missed, but no errors after that.
What is a proper noun?
400
These are the 4 scores to gather on a benchmark. These four scores should be considered when determining independent, instructional or frustrational levels.
What is accuracy, self-correction rate, fluency, and comprehension?
400
These three pieces of information can be analyzed to determine what a student is using at points of error.
What is meaning, structure, or visual information?
400
This resource explains the text features, teaching points and word work possibilities for each text level.
What is the Continuum of Literacy Learning?
400
Knowing a student's easy reading level will be helpful for this part of Reading Workshop.
What is independent reading?
500
This should be done after a child appeals and the teacher says, "You try it," but the child does not make an attempt.
What is give a told?
500
This is a way to make a decision about instructional and independent levels when the benchmark does not align with classroom observations, other data, or there are discrepancies with fluency, comprehension, accuracy or self-correcting.
What is use teacher judgment?
500
A benchmark should be analyzed to help us work in this zone with our students.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
500
These are the staff members that would be happy to demonstrate, observe or discuss benchmarking questions with you.
Who is your Literacy Team?
(Tricia, Rachel, Lisa, Kristy, and Diane)
500
The end of the year benchmark level for the grade level you teach.
What is D (kdg), J (1st), M (2nd), P (3rd), S (4th), V (5th), & Y (6th)