Description: Designed to drill down into pupil’s reading and comprehension skills (including phonics where necessary), the New Group Reading Test (NGRT) reveals exactly where support is required. With NGRT you can compare decoding skills and sentence completion against passage comprehension allowing you to identify, for instance, competent decoders with weak comprehension skills. We know that poor literacy skills can severely limit a child’s horizons. The New Group Reading Test (NGRT) allows teachers to assess reading and comprehension skills benchmarked against the national average and monitor progress. The ability to compare sentence completion scores alongside passage comprehension scores allows teachers to identify differences between a pupil’s decoding and comprehension skills - vital insight for helping to get literacy levels up. Material that adapts to the pupil’s ability The test is made up of two parts: sentence completion, which measures decoding with some element of comprehension; and passage comprehension, which measures a range of comprehension skills of increasing difficulty. The first reading comprehension passage is based on the pupil’s performance in the sentence completion section. Pupils with weak reading will see the phonics test. This would include secondary age pupils with delayed reading. An accurate measure of progress NGRT features two equivalent forms which can be used twice a year. For example, NGRT can be used on transition to secondary/Post Primary school to identify current levels of attainment and re-administered in March/April to identify pupils who are not making expected progress. This helps to monitor progress and identify any pupils who may be in need of additional diagnostic assessment and support for specific literacy difficulties. A valuable reference point and means of national comparison The Standard Age Score (SAS) provides you with a national benchmark, allowing you to compare pupil’s performance with other children of the same age, and track progress year-on-year. “The first time we used NGRT, I administered all the tests. However, as it is so simple to use, this time I will be briefing teachers and then allowing them to assess their own classes.” Christine Saville, deputy head at Castlechurch Primary School in Stafford “Best practice suggests that a balance of strategies is the way to ensure children have good literacy skills, but it can be difficult to measure how wide a child’s vocabulary is or how advanced their inference and deduction skills are. NGRT gave us a way in.” - Christine Saville, deputy head at Castlechurch Primary School in Stafford Reports Digital users will benefit from instant reporting. Paper users will need to sign up for our Scoring and Reporting Service. Data is presented in visually accessible tables, bar charts and scatter graphs that allow for easy comparison, as well as clear narrative explanations that explain the pupil profile and its implications for teaching and learning. The diagnostic information provided together with the ability to measure impact pre and post intervention makes NGRT a valuable assessment. The reports include: Group report for teachers - stanines for each section to highlight where a wide discrepancy may need particular attention. Group progress report for teachers – allows progress to be measured between two test points and how much progress against national sample. Individual report for teachers – offers a detailed analysis of responses to the two sections of NGRT. Combination report When compared with ability data from our Cognitive Abilities Test: Fourth Edition (CAT4), results from NGRT can reveal immediately whether or not pupils are reaching their full potential.

Publisher: Granada Learning