1. Benchmark assessments provide teachers with useful information to guide individualized and small group instruction, as well as book selection for guided reading and independent reading. 2. Teachers can use assessment results to group students and identify instructional targets, select appropriate books, and develop goals to improve areas like fluency, comprehension, and oral discussion of texts. 3. The continuum of literacy learning and assessment results should inform lesson planning and interactive read alouds to engage students in higher-level thinking about what they read.

1. Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System<br />Instructional Implications <br />Prepared by Andrea Hnatiuk<br />Testing is over….now what?<br />How do you use the assessment results to inform instruction?<br />Assessment and Instruction<br />Assessment should be used for action. When faced with a situation, we need to make an accurate assessment. From this, we need to respond with positive actions in order to get improved results.

2. What actions can teachers take?

3. Teachers can provide differentiated classrooms and approaches.

4. Differentiated instruction does not mean we are lowering standards. It means we are clear about the standards and we want all students to be successful. The end product may look different, but the learning still occurs. All students are achieving those standards.

5. We need to ensure we continue to modify for students to be successful.