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GL Assessment › Primary School › Literacy › York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension
An exciting new suite of tests for assessing letter and word recognition as well as phonological processing to passage reading.
Author(s): Margaret J Snowling, Susan E Stothard, Paula Clarke, Claudine Bowyer-Crane, Angela Harrington, Emma Truelove and Charles Hulme - University of York, Centre for Reading and Language
Suitable For: Teachers and SENCO's
Age Range: 4-11 years
Administration: Individual
Timings: Untimed, from 5 - 15 minutes
The York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension (YARC) enables teachers to assess their pupils’ reading skills from an early age through to the end of primary. It focuses not just on decoding and sight reading, but crucially on reading comprehension.
The assessments at passage level concentrate on reading for meaning, enabling pupils’ reading and reading comprehension to be regularly assessed and progress easily monitored. Questions linked to each passage demand the use of deduction and inference to arrive at the answers, giving teachers vital information about their pupils’ skills far beyond decoding and retrieval of information. In addition to the passages for pupils aged 5 to 11, YARC also includes four short tests (letter-sound knowledge, sound deletion (supported by pictures), sound isolation and early word recognition) specifically designed for five and six year olds, although data will be available for the age range four to seven years. Assessing alphabetic knowledge, phonological skills and word reading, these tests are especially useful at identifying any underlying difficulties in phonological awareness and the acquisition of letter-sounds that could hamper progress in pupils’ reading. The Passage Reading set comprises two equivalent passages for each year from Reception (P1) to Y6 (P7), each with eight comprehension questions of increasing complexity. A version of GL Assessment’s Single Word Reading Test is also included as a benchmark test. Take a look at the YARC Assessment Overview Support for the York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension
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