There are a number of ways teachers at Greswold use to assess children's reading. With younger children, listening to the children read aloud and asking questions is an important tool. As children get older, their written responses to questions are also used to inform judgements. Children are asked to respond to texts in their guided reading sessions. In Key Stage 2, Accelerated Reader can help provided additional evidence of children's understanding. More formal tests may also be used when appropriate to judge children's understanding of texts. Throughout the year, teachers build up a bank of evidence about each child's reading in order to make a judgement about their attainment.

Children are assessed according to reading Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) using the Teacher Assessment Framework (TAF). These are grouped into banks of statements for working towards the standard, working at the standard and working at greater depth. For a children to achieve a standard, they must be able to demonstrate evidence all of the statements listed. They are not 'best fit'. For example, for children to be judged as Working Towards the Standard in Year 4, they would need to demonstrate all of the statements in this part of the TAF.  You can see the TAF for each year group below. 

Year 6 SATS

In May of Year 6, children complete statutory tests including in reading.