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York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension: Passage Reading Secondary
A series of passages that assess the reading and comprehension skills of students from age 12 to 16.
Suitable For: Specialist teachers, heads of English, SENCOs and educational psychologists
Age Range: 12 – 16 years
New for summer 2010, the York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension (YARC) Passage Reading Secondary comprises a series of prose passages – both fiction and non-fiction – that enables the assessment of a student’s reading comprehension and fluency in a systematic way across the secondary school years.
Benefits:
- Contains passages for students from age 12 to 16 to read silently
- Includes passages developed for students with a reading age of 8 to 9 years which are read aloud and include a miscue analysis
- Comprehension questions tap vocabulary knowledge and different types of inference
- Ideal as an assessment before and after a specific intervention programme
- Provides standard scores, age equivalent scores and percentile ranks
- Contains all new material and data from UK-wide standardisation, carried out in 2009
- Fits with latest pedagogy and curricula for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Developed by Centre for Reading and Language at the University of York, one of the UK’s leading centres for research into the nature and causes of reading and language difficulties
- With YARC Early Reading and YARC Passage Reading Primary, offers a continuous and seamless assessment of reading from age 4–16
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