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  Level: Year 4 and year 8
Approach: One to one
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 Non-Book Band 0 - 6 .

     
% responses
y4
y8
Reading Band:
5
16 (9)
59 (47)
4
28 (23)
26 (32)
3
29 (34)
10 (14)
2
12 (15)
4 (3)
1
8 (11)
1 (3)
0
7 (8)
0 (1)
Commentary:
The results show significant improvement for both year 4 and year 8 students between 1996 and 2000. The percentage of year 4 students in the highest bands has almost doubled (from 9 to 16), while the percentage in the lowest two bands has decreased from 19 to 15. For year 8 students, the percentage in the top band has increased from 47 to 59 percent with the percentage in the bottom two bands decreasing from 4 to 1.
Links to Reading Record — Non - Book Bands
 
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