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My district is using the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark kit to determine students' guided reading levels. However, teachers at the elementary buildings are discovering that we have quite a few students who have good decoding skills and a broad range of background knowledge that they are drawing from for the comprehension portion of the test. Therefore, they are benchmarking at a level much higher than they should be at in terms of comprehension. Some teachers actually do place their students at a level that is more in line with their reading comprehension; however, others keep the students at that level and then complain that they can't understand anything they read. Does anyone have any suggestions? Does anyone use something else for their benchmarking? Should we be tying in something else with the benchmarking? We are becoming frustrated because the process of benchmarking does take time. In addition, we are supposed to benchmark three times a year. Yet, if the students are benchmar...See More
Tolly
On 4/08/11, Marie wrote: > My district is using the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark kit to > determine students' guided reading levels. However, teachers > at the elementary buildings are discovering that we have > quite a few students who have good decoding skills and a > broad range of background knowledge that they are drawing >...See More
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