Compare Primary Reading Assessment Materials & Tests

Years 1 - 6

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Carefully selected extracts provide a range of vocabulary, styles and content to build reading skills towards KS2 SATs. Photocopiable and editable, these informal tests help identify gaps in learning and next steps.

Teacher's Book: Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6 

Years 3 - 6 +

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Gain valuable insight into your students’ reading ability with ART; a wide-ranging, standardised and flexible assessment for pupils aged between 7 and 20 [read more]. 

Years 1 - 6

One-off Purchase

These tests support Assessment without levels in primary schools and provide a complete online diagnostic analysis system (Know Your Pupils) to assist teaching and learning.

Years 1 - 6

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NFER’s range of age-appropriate reading assessments enable you to reliably assess pupils’ reading attainment and progress in and across years 1-6. Based on over 75 years of research, and trusted by thousands of schools, our standardised reading assessments provide an efficient way for you to gather the valuable data you need to monitor and support progress in reading.

Years 1 - 6

One-off Purchase

Familiarise your pupils with National Test-style reading and maths papers whilst confidently measuring termly performance against thousands of pupils nationally.

Years 1 - 6

One-off Purchase

Oxford Primary Reading Assessment provides schools with a comprehensive solution to teacher assessment of reading in line with the expectations of the 2014 National Curriculum in England. It uses the Oxford Reading Criterion Scale to inform consistent assessment of reading from Reception/P1 right through to Year 6/P7 [read more].

Reception to Year 6

One-off Purchase

​Termly tests enabling you to reliably benchmark performance and track progress against national averages in reading. Standardised on over 10,000 pupils in 2019/20/21. Available in paper and auto-marked online format [read more]. 

Years 3 - 6

Subscription

The Progress Test in English (PTE) assessments enable you to accurately measure how your school and your pupils are performing – pupil by pupil, class by class and year by year.

Years 1 - 6 

Subscription/One-off Purchase

Progress and Assess is a robust toolkit for tracking children’s attainment and progress in Maths, Reading and Science. Embedded in our ActiveLearn Primary programmes, or available to purchase separately, Progress & Assess provides you with a clear picture of where each child is performing against Age‑Related Expectations.

Years 1 - 6

One-off Purchase

This document will aid teachers in gaining a deeper understanding of each standard within a year group and the progress children are making across a year. It will assist teachers in identifying gaps in learning and will consequently inform planning. Beyond this, it will support school leaders in the identification of whole school priorities for improvement.

Years Reception - 6

Annual Subscription

FFT's Reading Assessment Programme is a simple and effective online assessment tool designed to assess pupils on their GPC Accuracy, Decoding Accuracy and Fluency Levels. Instantly produced reports allow schools to analyse data at whole school, class, group or individual pupil level. Enabling teachers to plan next steps, whether through whole-class teaching or keep-up/catch-up intervention.

Years 1 - 6

Annual Subscription

ReadingScreen is a quick and accurate digital assessment of word and nonword reading. It can be administered by teachers, teaching assistants or any adult. It is quick to use, taking between 2-10 minutes per child and will identify children requiring extra support to develop decoding skills.

Year 1 - 6

Subscription

Renaissance Star Reading is a complete online assessment of your students’ reading growth, showing you skills they have mastered which are aligned to the National Curriculum. Star Reading goes even further to show you the skills each student needs to focus on to meet or exceed expected standards.