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 : Trend Task: Reading Record – Non-Fiction
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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 on pages 17–19.

% responses
2004 ('00) ['96]
y4
y8
Reading Band:
5
31 (24) [11]
66 (57) [55]
 
4
28 (23) [23]
20 (24) [26]
3
18 (24) [24]
8 (12) [11]
2
8 (13) [15]
3 (5) [5]
1
8 (9) [12]
2 (2) [2]
0
7 (7) [15]
1 (0) [1]
Commentary:
As reported for the previous task, there has been further improvement in performance for year 4 students on this task, between 2000 and 2004. In 2004, 59 percent of year 4 students scored in the top two bands, compared to 47 percent in 2000 and 34 percent in 1996. However, there has been little change over the last four years in the percentage of students scoring in the bottom two bands.

For year 8 students, the improved performance at year 4 level in 2000 has been reflected in improved performance at year 8 level in 2004, with 66 percent of year 8 students scoring in the highest reading band in 2004, compared to 57 percent in 2000 and 55 percent in 1996. The percentage in the bottom three reading bands has changed much less: from eight percent in 1996 to seven percent in 2000 and six percent in 2004.
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