"The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource is a comprehensive reading assessment resource. It has beem designed to explicitly assess students' instuctional and independent reading levels using unseen meaningful texts."-- p. 4 Teachers' resource book.

The Rigby PM Benchmark Kit includes 30 accurately leveled textsranging progressively from emergent level through fluency (grades K-5).

PM Benchmark Kit provides a quality assessment system for accurate identification of pupils’ reading levels. Sitting alongside the PM series this comprehensive assessment tool corresponds exactly to ‘Book Bands for Guided Reading’, or can be used independently to ensure consistent leveling of readers.