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Why use YARC Primary?
• YARC Primary: Complete Set offers a continuous and
seamless assessment of reading from age 4 to 11,
providing a remarkable amount of diagnostic information
• It has been developed by the Centre for Reading and Language at the
University of York, one of the UK’s leading centres for research into the
nature and causes of reading and language difficulties
• It is ideal as a follow-up assessment at individual level, for those pupils
who are identified as requiring further intervention after group testing
• The tests in the Early Reading suite are especially useful for identifying
underlying difficulties in phonological awareness and the acquisition of
letter sounds that could hamper progress in reading
• It provides standard age scores, age equivalent scores and percentile
ranks for pupils aged 4 to 11 years 11 months, to help you benchmark
your pupils’ reading and measure progress
YARC Score Conversion Tool
YARC Primary comes with a free online Score Conversion Tool that allows
teachers and practitioners to input pupil details and raw scores and
instantly receive a single page report with standard scores and percentile
ranks for each part of YARC Primary that has been administered. Visit
www.yarcsupport.co.uk for more details.
Contents: YARC Primary Complete Set contains: Early Reading test material,
Early Reading manual, Early Reading Record Forms (10). Passage Reading test
material, Passage Reading manual and Passage Reading Record Forms (10)
Prices
YARC Early Reading
*+VAT
Early Reading Set
Early Reading Record Forms
978 07087 19053/GLA500 £110.00*
(Pack of 10) 978 07087 19060/GLA500 £11.30*
Passage Reading and Early Reading materials are included in the YARC Complete Set
Primary
YARC Complete Set Primary 978 07087 19046/GLA500 £210.00*
YARC Assessment Overview
YARC Passage Reading Primary
GLA122 F.O.C.
Passage Reading Primary Set 978 07087 19077/GLA500 £120.00*
Passage Reading Primary Record Forms
(Pack of 10) 978 07087 19084/GLA500 £21.70*
a complete approach
LITERACY
Example passages, Pupil Record Form,
Picture Book and SWRT from YARC Primary
There is a dedicated website – www.yarcsupport.co.uk –
where you can find supplementary technical information,
frequently asked questions, an online conversion tool and
further case studies
YARC Primary in our portfolio
YARC Primary is an ideal follow-up assessment to the New
Group Reading Test (NGRT) (pages 24–27). Whilst NGRT
screens and monitors the reading ability of pupils on a group level
to identify those with potential difficulties, YARC Primary will
enable you to carry out and in-depth, individual assessment of a
pupil’s decoding and comprehension skills. A wealth of invaluable
diagnostic information on a pupil’s reading skills can be used to
inform timely and appropriate intervention strategies.
YARC Primary is particularly useful in identifying a pupil’s eligibility
for additional time for Access Arrangements at Key Stage 2,
Combining YARC Primary with the British Picture Vocabulary
Scale: 3rd Edition (page 34), provides a quick and easy
assessment of vocabulary, an element essential to success in
reading.
YARC Primary is also particularly useful when combined with our
Dyslexia Portfolio (page 54), to identify pupils who are
displaying the signs of dyslexia, so that measures can be put in
place quickly to support their achievement in literacy.
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