General Information

PM Benchmark is an assessment of student's reading abilities that is done at school. 

The student reads a text on their own and then aloud to the teacher. 

As a student reads, they are assessed on fluency, reading strategies and comprehension.

These areas are explained below.

FLUENCY - how many words students can read correctly in a minute

READING STRATEGIES - self-correcting, word recognition, pace, decoding difficult words

COMPREHENSION - if students are able to answer questions about the text