Reading Assessment

 Mary Howard, the RTI guru herself, recommends using running records weekly to assess the lowest 20% of your students and every three to four weeks for the rest of your students.  Here are a few resources to use:

The Teacher's College Website has a ton of Benchmarks for all reading levels that you can print off and use.  I know I will definitely be printing out a ton of these!


You can print out the running record sheet pictured above here.

 Here is a reading strategy use checklist to keep track of all of your students' strategies.

Here is a word identification reading assessment with Pre-Primer to 4th grade level words.

How often do you assess your students' reading progress?  What do you use?