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 Trend Task: Reading Record – Non-Book
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Approach: One to one Level: 4 & 8 
Focus:   Accuracy of oral reading 
Resources: Reading Band Indicator chart, instruction manual, pack of 12 texts arranged in six reading bands
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Questions/instructions:
The procedures for administering this task have been described on pages 14–16.
Examples of the reading passages in each of the six bands are shown below and on pages 20–22.

% responses
2004 ('00) ['96]
y4
y8
Reading Band:
5
16 (16) [9]
61 (59) [47]
 
4
28 (28) [23]
26 (26) [32]
3
30 (29) [34]
7 (10) [14]
2
15 (12) [15]
4 (4) [3]
1
5 (8) [11]
1 (1) [3]
0
6 (7) [8]
1 (0) [1]
Commentary:
Unlike on the two previous oral reading tasks, there has been little change in performance on this task between 2000 and 2004, apart from a small reduction in low performance for year 4 students. For both year 4 and year 8 students, there has been a marked increase in high performance between 1996 and 2004, with 14 percent more year 8 students scoring in the highest reading band and 12 percent more year 4 students scoring in the two highest reading bands.

For year 4 students, there has been a marked decrease in low performance. The percentage of year 4 students in the two lowest bands was 19 percent in 1996, dropping to 15 percent in 2000 and 11 percent in 2004.
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