About YARC
The York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension (YARC) Early Reading allows teachers to focus assessment on the core skills that underpin alphabetic literacy. It comprises four short tests:
Letter Sound Knowledge
Early Word Recognition
Sound Isolation
Sound Deletion
These tests may be used together or individually with pupils aged four to seven.
The tests allow for the quick and accurate assessment and monitoring of pupils’ progress as well as providing diagnostic information for the early identification of reading problems. Their development reflects the recent changes in emphasis in the teaching of reading to a systematic phonic based approach.
YARC Early Reading provides standard scores, percentile ranks and age equivalent scores for word reading, letter sound knowledge and phoneme awareness.
