Reading Assessment Programme

Assess pupils’ key reading skills

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The importance of online reading assessment

Move beyond paper

Remove manual marking and data entry with assessments that calculate results instantly and connect to your MIS, allowing you to work smarter.

Spot reading gaps

Regular assessments and easy-to-interpret reports to quickly and accurately identify reading gaps in phonics, decoding or fluency early.

Guide teaching

Track progress and measure impact with reliable, instant data to inform next steps in teaching and interventions.

What is FFT's Reading Assessment Programme?

FFT's Reading Assessment Programme is a simple and effective online assessment tool designed to assess pupils on their GPC Accuracy, Decoding Accuracy and Fluency Outcomes (Words Correct Per Minute).

Words Correct Per Minute outcomes inform Standardised Scores, Reading Attainment Levels and Reading Fluency Ages for Year 1 to Year 6 pupils.

For Reception pupils, Standardised Scores and Reading Attainment Levels are provided based on Decoding outcomes.

Instantly produced reports help you analyse data at whole-school, class, group or individual pupil level.

This makes it easy to identify those who need support—whether through whole-class teaching or keep-up/catch-up intervention.

Complete reading assessment for EYFS and Key Stages 1 & 2

GPC Knowledge Check

Content mapped to the GPC sequences used by all major phonics providers (FFT's Success for All Phonics, Little Wandle, Read Write Inc, Sounds Write, Twinkl and Letters and Sounds).

Decoding Check

Assesses pupils' ability to apply their GPC knowledge from the most recent teaching block to decode words as well as read Common Exception Words.

Reading Fluency Check

Pupils read a one-minute passage where errors are logged to calculate Words Correct Per Minute.

Phonics Screening Check

Includes all DfE Phonics Screening Check Past Papers for practice ahead of the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.

FFT's new Adaptive Reading Test

NEW

The UK’s first adaptive assessment for schools for phonics, decoding and reading fluency

Tailored decoding and fluency content that adapts in real time for each pupil

Suitable for all primary-level readers, including older pupils needing support

Standardised Scores and Reading Fluency Ages available

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Reports on each pupil

Instant feedback after each assessment showing key insights to help inform next steps.

Reading attainment levels

Identify and compare pupils' fluency and decoding abilities at a glance with easy-to-interpret colour coding, Standardised Scores and Reading Fluency Ages.

GPC pupils

Identify where pupils are secure in their GPC knowledge as a class or individuals.

Reporting on a whole school, class, group or individual level

Instant analysis at a quick glance.

Decoding reports

Instant feedback of decoding ability at whole school, year group, class or individual pupil level.

GPC reports

Instant overview of GPC success rate and gaps to inform next steps in teaching.

What schools are saying

Identifies areas we need to focus on

FFT’s Reading Assessment Programme (RAP) is easy to use and provides detailed data. High-quality training is available to support staff with carrying out and analysing the data. FFT’s RAP has enabled us to identify the areas we need to focus on, adapt our teaching in our review sessions and consolidation weeks. It also enables us to plan relevant interventions to support those children who are falling behind.

Jo Gunn

Phonics Lead, Mount Nod Primary

Saved huge amounts of time

Using the phonics scheme and FFT’s Reading Assessment Programme, has saved huge amounts of time when completing assessments and it is easy to analyse data and identify gaps in children’s knowledge to inform next steps. At the end of each block, when there are consolidation lessons, this has been hugely beneficial to complete the assessments and give detailed feedback to the teachers informing them of gaps, misconceptions and to focus on these.

Lorraine Lloyd

Year 1 Teacher and Phonics Lead, Newcroft Primary Academy

How do I get the Reading Assessment Programme?

Pricing

£295

Annual subscription, excl VAT

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or phone 01446 776262

or

Free

for schools with a subscription to

FFT Success for All Phonics

Reading Catch-up

Spelling & Reading

Reciprocal Reading

We've also answered some common questions in our FAQs below.

FAQs

We've answered some common questions about FFT's Reading Assessment Programme. If your question is not answered, please get in touch.

It can be used with all children working at a Reception to Year 6 age expected level. It can be used with Secondary aged children working below age expected level.

Assessments are provided for a wide range of phonics providers. FFT’s Success for All Phonics Programme follows a Letters and Sounds sequence and is therefore suitable for Letters and Sounds schools. There are also a range of bespoke assessments which align with the teaching sequence of a range of other phonics providers, therefore ensuring you are assessing on the correct content.

Pupils will benefit from the flexibility around assessment choice. The range of assessments mean that you could use RAP for carrying out baseline assessments to identify phonics gaps for pupils (including older pupils, SEND and EAL pupils) or tracking progress of older pupils through a phonics programme.

For those pupils working at an age expected level, termly assessments from Year 2 to Year 6 will provide decoding and fluency outcomes, allowing you to track progress and ensure pupils are on track (Reading Attainment Levels, Standardised Scores and Reading Fluency Ages will support this).

The Reception and Year 1 assessments align to the systematic teaching of phonics from a range of phonics providers. You assess children in these year groups after whole class teaching of a set of GPCs.

The Reception and Year 1 end of year Summative Assessments can also be used as a baseline assessment at the beginning of Year 1 and Year 2.

Year 2 to Year 6 assessments are designed as end of term assessments. They can however, also double up as a baseline assessment.

It will systematically assess GPC knowledge following the teaching of GPCs in whole class teaching, with assessments aligned to the teaching sequence for a range of phonics providers.

It will assess pupils’ ability to apply their GPC knowledge to the decoding of phonetically decodable words, reading of Year 1 and 2 Common Exception Words and NC Spelling List Words and Tier 2 Vocabulary in Years 3–6.

It will provide a Words Correct Per Minute (WCPM) fluency score which converts into a Standardised Score, Reading Attainment Level and Reading Fluency Age (Year 1 and above for most assessments).

It will allow you to assess comprehension of the fluency passage to ensure understanding is secure.

A range of instant, easy to interpret reports will allow you to quickly analyse data. Reports allow you to assess data at year group, class and pupil level against the different reading skills assessed.

Emphasis is placed on GPC knowledge, decoding and fluency.

Analysis of the reports will inform whole class/ year group trends and teaching gaps which will feed into teaching plans. Additionally, the reports will identify pupils who require additional phonics or reading intervention, such as Tutoring with the Lightning Squad.

Yes, RAP provides Standardised Scores, Reading Attainment Levels and Reading Fluency Ages for FFT/L&S assessments and for some assessments for other phonics providers. For Reception assessments, Standardised Scores and Reading Attainment Levels are based on Decoding outcomes. From Year 1 and above, and for other providers, Standardised Scores and Reading Attainment Levels are based on Fluency outcomes and Reading Fluency Ages are provided.

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