RTSA - Reading Assessment Levels
Reading text
Independence
Understand / read aloud / translate key words.
Use basic sound-spelling
patterns to deduce
pronunciation
Increased awareness of
sound-spelling
Use a dictionary
Use online reference
resources effectively (incl.
correct use of google
translate)
Read and understand the
gist of a poem / short text
independently
Year 2 or 3
Year 1 or 2
Year 1 of learning
1
2
3
4
5
6
Pick out key details from sentences.
Understand / read aloud / translate selected sentences.
Understand / read aloud / translate parts of short texts.
Work out basic mood / feeling / emotion in a text.
Understand longer texts including short, (possibly edited) stories or fairy-tales
etc.
Use context to work out meaning.
Translate key parts of text e.g. to pull out basic grammatical features or
vocabulary.
Understand longer, more complex texts including more authentic texts.
Understand more than one tense.
Translate key parts of text including complex sentences e.g. to pull out key
details.
Understand texts from more unusual and varied sources – often with underlying
emotion / nuance / tone / humour.
Year 3
Understand more than 2 tenses
7
Understand more creative and unusual texts which might challenge the able
reader due to the range and complexity of language, the tone or context of the
writing. Understand a range of tenses.
Read familiar and unfamiliar
text aloud confidently and
with comprehension
Search out suitable reading
material independently (e.g.
news articles online)
Use informative texts for
research
RTSA - Writing Assessment Levels
Year 1
1
Year 1 or 2
Translation English to TL
Accurate production of words
Accurate translation of key words
Accurate production of sentences
Accurate translation of key words in
sentences / phrases
2
3
4
Year 2
5
6
Year 3
Writing
7
Accurate production of extended
sentences
Accurate production of short
paragraphs.
Include extra detail in written work
Accurate production of longer, more
complex text.
Use more than one tense.
Use interesting and diverse vocabulary
/ structures
Accurate production of longer, more
complex text which engages the
reader.
Use more than 2 tenses.
Variety of structure and vocabulary
leads to increasing fluency.
Accurate production of longer, more
complex text which engages the
reader.
Use an impressive range of tenses and
grammatical structures.
Work is fluent and often creative.
Accurate translation of short, familiar
phrases. Awareness of gender and
verb agreement.
Accurate translation of basic
information
. Increasing ability to apply basic rules
of gender, agreement, verb
conjugation.
Accurate translation of more than one
tense.
Ability to apply grammar rules to
nouns, verbs and adjectives
consistently
Accurate translation of more than 2
tenses.
Ability to apply a range of grammar
rules consistently.
Accurate translation of a range of
tenses and structures.
Ability to apply grammar rules
consistently with evidence of an
understanding of more complex or
irregular structures.
Independence
Learn language from
memory
Use reference material
effectively
Use basic writing frames
Use reference materials to
check spellings and
meanings
Use writing frames to
produce a written response.
Proof read work for errors.
Use reading and listening
texts to inform writing
RTSA - Listening Assessment Levels
Listening to text
Year 1 or 2
Year 1 of learning
1
2
3
4
5
Year 2 or 3
Year 3
Listen for key details from sentences.
Transcribe parts of simple familiar statements.
Statements may be repeated several times.
Understand / parts of short passages.
Transcribe familiar sentences (including verb).
Identify basic moods / feelings / emotions in a text.
Statements may need less repetition.
Understand longer passages.
Use context to work out meaning.
Repetition may still be required, especially for more complex phrases.
Accurately transcribe simple sentences which demand more grammatical
awareness.
Understand longer, more complex passages.
Understand passages in more than one tense.
Increasingly less repetition needed.
Accurately transcribe increasingly longer sentences OR parts of sentences which
focus on a particular point of grammar.
Understand longer, more complex passages.
Understand passages in more than two tenses.
6
7
Independence
Understand / transcribe words from simple statements.
Statements may be repeated several times.
Increasingly less repetition needed.
Accurately transcribe increasingly longer sentences OR parts of sentences which
focus on a particular point of grammar.
Understand more creative and unusual texts which might challenge the able
student due to the range and complexity of language, the tone or context of the
passage. Understand a range of vocabulary, tenses and grammatical structures.
Accurately transcribe sentences with specific grammatical complexities.
Increased awareness of
sound-spelling to support
comprehension.
Awareness of the skills
needed to listen for gist and
to listen for detail.