RTSA - Reading Assessment Levels
Reading text
Independence
Pick out / 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
Year 1 or 2
Year 1
1
2
Pick out key details from sentences.
Understand / read aloud / translate selected sentences.
3
Understand / read aloud / translate parts of short texts.
Work out basic mood / feeling / emotion in a text.
Understand longer texts including short, edited stories or fairy-tales.
Use context to work out meaning.
Translate key parts of text e.g. to pull out key grammatical features or
vocabulary
Read and understand a
poem / short text
independently
Understand longer, more complex texts.
Understand tense in text.
Translate phrases in different tenses.
Read familiar and unfamiliar
text aloud confidently and
with comprehension
6
Understand texts from more unusual and varied sources – often with underlying
emotion / nuance / tone / humour.
7
Understand more creative and unusual texts which might challenge the reader
due to the range and complexity of language, the tone or context of the writing.
Search out suitable reading
material independently (e.g.
news articles online)
Use informative texts for
research
4
Year 3
Year 2
5
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
Key words from memory
Accurate production of extended
sentences
Accurate translation of short, familiar
phrases. Awareness of gender and
verb agreement.
Increasing use of memory
Accurate production of short
paragraphs.
Include extra detail and interest in
written work
Spelling is consistent
Accurate translation of key details in a
passage. Increasing ability to apply
basic rules of gender, agreement, verb
conjugation.
Use reference materials to
check spellings and
meanings
Understand longer, more complex
texts.
Understand tense in text.
Read familiar and unfamiliar text aloud
confidently
Use of a tense other than present
tense in translation.
Ability to apply basic grammar rules to
nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Combining reading aloud
and comprehension
Understand complex texts in familiar /
unfamiliar contexts.
Understand
Be capable of searching out suitable
reading material independently (e.g.
news articles online)
Understand more creative and unusual
texts
Understand texts from more unusual
and varied sources – often with
underlying emotion / nuance / tone /
humour
Use of past, present and future with a
well-known set of verbs.
Increasing accuracy in applying basic
rules to nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Able to pick out higher level
grammatical structures in
text and use grammatical
knowledge to decode
meaning
Ability to manipulate tense across a
range of known verbs.
Increasing accuracy in applying basic
rules and some exceptions in use of
nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Use informative texts for
research
2
3
4
Year 2
5
6
Year 3
Writing
7
Independence