Year 3: Reading Comprehension Growth Assessments
Reading Comprehension Growth Assessments | Year 3 | Pre & Post Tasks with Marking Guides
Want clear evidence that your reading comprehension teaching is working? This Year 3 pack gives you 5 matched pre and post cycles (10 tasks) across narrative, informative, persuasive and poetry texts, so you can see exactly how much each student has grown across the year. Each cycle runs in one sitting and comes with its own marking guide.
How it works
Pre-Assess → Mark → Teach → Post-Assess → Compare Growth
- Pre-assess: students complete the pre-assessment independently
- Mark: score it quickly with the marking guide
- Teach: target the skills students found hardest
- Post-assess: students complete the matched post-assessment
- Compare growth: compare pre and post scores and track progress with the growth bands
Skills assessed
- Literal and inferential comprehension
- Vocabulary in context
- Author's craft and literary devices
- Open-response questions: literary analysis for narrative and poetry, and purpose and technique for informative and persuasive texts
What's Included?
- Teacher overview on running, marking and interpreting each cycle
- 5 pre/post cycles (10 student tasks)
- Two-page, print-ready student task sheets
- Marking guides with model answers, accepted responses and a scoring rubric for every open-response question
- Growth band table (Beginning to Highly Developed) for tracking progress
- Every question linked to the Australian Curriculum v9.0 and NSW English K–10 Syllabus (2022)
Why teachers use it
- Four text types in one pack, not just one genre
- Pre and post tasks are matched in length, difficulty and structure, so score changes show real growth
- Curriculum codes on every question make reporting easy
- Complete marking guides make marking quick
- Pairs with the Hello Primary Writing Growth Assessments for a full picture of literacy growth
Resource Details
- Text types: Narrative, informative, persuasive and poetry
- Focus: Reading comprehension, pre/post growth measurement
- Stage: Stage 2 (Year 3)
- Length: 5 cycles (10 assessments)
- Time: Approximately 30 minutes per assessment
- Format: 44-page PDF
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Yes. Every Hello Primary resource is written by an Australian primary teacher and aligned to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus and the Australian Curriculum v9.0. The curriculum links for this resource are included in the download.
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