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York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension:
Passage Reading Secondary


by Centre for Reading and Language, University of York

(York Secondary Complete Set)
Item: 9780708720288

Suitable For: Specialist teachers, heads of English, SENCOs and educational psychologists
Age Range: 12 – 16 years old
Administration: Individual
Timings: Untimed, from 5 - 15 minutes

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

Contents:

YARC: Passage Reading Secondary Complete Set contains:

  • Passage Reading Test Material
  • Passge Reading Manual and
  • Passage Reading Record Forms (15)
   

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