Administer in under 10 minutes
Designed to take less than 10 minutes to complete.
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Salford Sentence Reading and Comprehension Test
Assess your learners' reading skills and identify those who may need additional support in less than 10 minutes.
Salford Sentence and Reading and Comprehension Test (SSRCT) is a verbal reading and comprehension test for learners aged 5–16. Administered in less than 10 minutes, SSRCT is ideal for testing a group of learners quickly and tracking small steps of progress. Available as print assessments with digital marksheets and reporting in Boost Insights.
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Why choose SSRCT?
Get a detailed Reading Age
Identify learners who may need additional support
Plan effectively with reliable data
Track small steps of progress
SSRCT accurately gauge a learner's true Reading Age and ability to enable you to plan effectively:
- Identify the learner's reading accuracy with a quick-to-administer test.
- Determine a learner's level of literal understanding, vocabulary and inference with a follow up comprehension questions.
- Standardised in 2022 to provide you with an accurate picture of how a learner compares a nationally representative sample and which learners need additional support.
- For pupils unable to read the first sentence, the test can be delivered as a listening comprehension, so teachers can still get a measure of their understanding.
Download the Brochure
If you would like to learn about use cases for SSRCT, please download our brochure today.
Core features
Online marksheets and reporting
Get insight into how your class or a specific learner is performing with online reports.Listening comprehension
Gauge comprehension for learners who are unable to read the first four sentences. This way, you can get a sense of a learner's comprehension ability even if they are unable to read.Standardised in 2022
Re-standardised in 2022 to provide reliable standardised scores, age-standardised scores, reading ages, comprehension ages, and percentiles.
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Simple to use and provides a range of information about specific learners. It's particularly useful for setting targets for learners with SEN. We identify three areas as a focus and include these in planning. Learners have shown progress across every half term using this small-steps approach. We can demonstrate this progress, even though learners aren't moving through their current year groups expected levels.
Amanda Robinson Assistant Headteacher, West Park Primary SchoolWe use Salford Sentence Reading and Comprehension Test twice a year to identify the reading ages of our learners. We then put specific interventions in place for learners who are reading below their chronological age. We do this for learners of all ages. The test allows you to track the progress the learners are making. It is simple to use and all learners can access it. It identifies specific areas where the learners need more support and which areas they are doing well in.
Deputy Headteacher The Beechfield SchoolI have used this resource previously and find it is instant and reliable. Using this resource has enabled me to overcome the difficulties in discussing reading and comprehension ages with my learners. I can tell them where their strengths and weaknesses are and give suggestions as to where they need to improve. The learners, I feel, appreciate that instant feedback.
Yvonne Dundon SSA in Literacy and Speech & Language, Our Lady & St John Catholic College BlackburnEach learner completes Salford Sentence Reading and Comprehension Test at the start and end of the academic year to measure their reading age. Interventions are then put in place to support those with lower reading ages. These scores are used alongside our other reading assessment measures. I would recommend this resource to other schools as it provides an accurate, year on year measure of reading ability and is a consistent data source to compare to other systems for reading.
Deputy Headteacher Keresley Grange/Keresley NewlandHaving used the resource in the trial we realised it was a powerful tool to look deeper into pupil progress, in addition to all of the material we currently use. The scores are age related which gives us very clear data on progress across the years in school.
Mandy Jones Executive Headteacher, Cockshutt and Criftins CE Primary Schools
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