Chapter Graphic : Reading Record - Fiction
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Approach: One to one  Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Accuracy of oral reading.
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Resources: Reading Band Indicator Chart, instruction manual, pack of 18 texts arranged in 6 reading bands.

Questions / instructions:
The procedures for administering this task have been described in The Three Record Tasks.
Examples of the reading passages in each of the six bands are shown on Ficton Band 0 - 6 .

     
% responses
y4
y8
Reading Band:
5
25 (10)
53 (51)
 
4
27 (20)
28 (29)
3
24 (29)
15 (11)
2
12 (22)
2 (7)
1
7 (9)
2 (1)
0
5 (10)
0 (1)
Commentary:
The results show a dramatic improvement in reading for year 4 students from 1996 to 2000. The percentage of students in the highest reading band has more than doubled (from 10 to 25), while the percentage in the lowest band has halved (from 10 to 5). There is little improvement at the top end of year 8 students, but the percentage of year 8 students in the three lowest bands has halved (from 9 to 4). These results can only be seen as very encouraging.
Links to Reading Record — Fiction Bands
 
 
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