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York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension – Secondary, Complete Set
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.
Passage Reading Set contains:
Passage Reading Manual, Passage Reading Booklet, Passage Reading Record Forms (15).
Description
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
Additional information
| Age Range | 12 – 16 |
|---|---|
| Testing Time | 5 – 15 minutes |
| Administration | Individual |











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