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FFT's Reading Assessment Programme is an online reading assessment tool which provides a simple, structured and systematic approach to assessing key phonics and reading skills for all children across the primary phase. It is simple and easy to use.

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.

GPC knowledge, Blending, Segmenting, Decoding, Fluency and Comprehension.

Depending on your phonics provider, there are between 6–12 assessments through Reception and Year 1, as well as additional summative assessments at the end of Reception and end of Year 1. There are three assessments per year for Year 2–Year 6.

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 systematic teaching of GPCs in whole class teaching.

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.

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

Yes, you will be able to access all the DfE Phonics Screening past papers to practise online.

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.

As well as our dedicated Support Team, we provide a comprehensive training programme as part of your subscription.

Later this academic year we will be providing Reading Ages and Standardised Reading Scores in our Reading Assessment Programme.

This Autumn term we will be updating it to include reading fluency levels which will allow you to compare the reading fluency of your pupils to a national sample of schools (using percentiles).

These colour-coded levels will allow you to quickly identify the level each pupil is working at from Well Below, Below, Expected, Above and Well Above.

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