ReadingAssessmentGuide
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Vicky Crane
Build and develop the knowledge teachers need to assess reading comprehension effectively and identify precise next steps.
Reading Assessment Guide
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The Big 10 - comprehension skills
Break reading comprehension into ten key strategies ensuring that teacher assessment encompasses breadth. Then help teachers to consider the weighting of each skill. And then pin point precise next steps for depth of skill.
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Progression
Support teachers to plan with precision, and help them target the development of each skill and plot progression. The guide builds knowledge and helps teachers to see how to make their teaching more robust.
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Guidance
Provide teachers with practical guidance on assessment through book talk, assessment through observation, assessment through written tasks.
One of the biggest differences in progression between key stages is the complexity and challenge of the text selected.
There is no single way to map progress against key stages. The ICTWAND assessment guide links back to the current National Curriculum, and this should always be the starting point for schools. The guide seeks to build on this, and create a more granular approach. The statements for each phase are a suggestion based on research and pupil observations. They are not set in stone, but provide benchmarks which teachers can use alongside their professional judgement and other forms of assessment such as test scores to help inform them of a child's most important next steps. The guide is designed to promote thinking and discussion amongst teachers, and help leaders to engage in more specific conversations about reading development.
Background knowledge is a key factor in comprehension and this can mask pupil skill levels, as can a range of other elements that are linked to word reading and grammar rather than comprehension skills. This should be kept in mind.