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PM Benchmark Kit Training

We offer in-school training to help you make the most of your red and blue PM Benchmark Kits.

Understand better how to assess students’ fluency and retelling strategies while determining their level of comprehension, both within and beyond the text. Benchmark Kit Training will take place over two 1.5 hour sessions, one week apart, and will cover:

• The balanced reader
• How levelled texts work
• Understanding the benchmarking of progress in reading
• How to take a running record

• Further understanding of the balanced reader
• Fully analysing the running record (meaning, structure, visual) to inform instruction
• Using the running record to inform instruction, linking to the requirements of the National Curriculum, guided reading organisation and age-related expectations

A practical benchmarking task will be set by the course trainer to be completed between session 1 and session 2.

Call 01926 816 266 or email training@scholastic.co.uk for more information.

(Some geographical restrictions may apply.)

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The training was well paced and engaging. The knowledge of the trainers was exceptional and they motivated my staff to want to really understand the system and ask questions.

The way the second session built on the first was perfect in enabling staff to have the opportunity to ‘layer’ their learning and understanding.