Benchmark Assessment System 1 (BAS) 2.0, used with students in grades K-2, is a comprehensive assessment system that provides teachers with critical information about each student’s reading abilities including:
- oral reading behaviors
- concepts about print
- phonological awareness
- phonics
- fluency
- comprehension
- writing about reading
BAS 2.0 features fiction and nonfiction texts, assessments for early reading behaviors, and book-specific comprehension rubrics.
Through demonstration, guided practice, and discussion, you will learn how to administer, score, and analyze student results from the Benchmark Assessment System 2.0 and learn how to use the information gathered to inform whole group, small group, and individual instruction.
Course Outcomes
- Record and analyze oral reading behaviors, including word solving, fluency, and comprehension.
- Gather and use information about students’ concepts about print, phonological awareness, and phonics understandings to inform instruction.
- Conduct standardized comprehension conversations and use book-specific scoring rubrics.
- Determine independent, instructional, and placement reading levels
- Determine the instructional implications for whole-group, small-group, and individual instruction.
- Use writing about reading to learn more about students as readers.