About YARC (continued)

YARC Passage Reading consists of a series of graded passages to assess children’s reading attainment from age five to 11. Importantly, each passage is accompanied by a set of comprehension questions which assess a range of comprehension skills. YARC Passage Reading allows teachers to regularly assess children’s reading fluency and accuracy and comprehension.

YARC Passage Reading has equivalent forms and produces standard age scores, percentile ranks and age equivalent scores for reading accuracy (through a detailed error analysis), rate and comprehension. YARC Passage Reading has been correlated with the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability to give teachers flexibility in their choice of reading assessments from GL Assessment.

YARC Passage Reading Secondary

YARC Passage Reading Secondary completes the series of YARC assessments. It comprises two sets of prose passages, both fiction and non-fiction for students age 11 to 16. These passages are designed to be read silently and are accompanied by 13 comprehension questions and a final summarisation question.

YARC Secondary also includes passages (Supplementary and Additional Supplementary Passages) for students whose reading age is below ten years of age and are accessible at a reading age of 6.05.

An extended and re-standardised version of GL Assessment’s Single Word Reading Test is included and this may be used as a benchmark for entry to the passage reading assessments. Reading Fluency is tested separately so in total YARC yields scores for:

Reading Rate
Reading Accuracy (Supplementary Passages only)
Reading Comprehension
Reading Fluency
Single Word Reading

The comprehensive nature of YARC Secondary makes it ideal for assessment for Access Arrangements for GCSE and other national examinations taken at age 15 and 16.

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