Benchmark Professional Support: Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System:

    System 2 for Grades 3 - 8

(Diane Stuart of Heinemann)

Monday, November 3, 2008; 8:30 - 3:30

Location: Burke Mountain Room at Lyndon State College

Target Audience: Literacy Coordinators; Assessment Coordinators; Teachers of Grades 3-8

Workshop

Cost: $225 (includes breakfast and lunch)

Benchmark Professional Support introduces participants to the thinking behind the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System, provides training on how to administer and analyze the assessment, and helps participants understand instructional and grouping implications. Through demonstration, guided practice, and discussion, teachers learn how to:

- Administer, code, and score a Benchmark reading assessment

- Determine independent, instructional, and placement levels for readers using the Fountas and Pinnell L-Z Text Gradient

- Analyze a child’s reading performance - including reading comprehension, reading rate and word analysis - to assess the reader’s current processing system

- Assess reading fluency using a rubric

- Administer a variety of other literacy assessments, such as word analysis, print concepts, and reading overview

- Gauge the instructional implications for both whole-group and differentiated, small group instruction