Reading Progress Tests (RPT)

Please note: The Reading Progress Test materials are while stocks last. Please refer to the Progressive Achievement Tests in Reading - Fourth Edition (PAT-R 4), Comprehension and Vocabulary as an alternative.

Purpose: Measure progress in reading year-on-year throughout primary school

Time: Untimed (approximately 20 -50 minutes)

Administration: Group; Individual

The Reading Progress Test (RPT) is available in two stages:

1. Stage 1: First three years of school
2. Stage 2: Years 3-6

The RPT Stage 1 assesses pre-reading and early reading skills through administration of a Literacy Baseline test in the first year of school and two reading comprehension tests for the second and third year of school.

The RPT Stage 2 assesses literal and inferential comprehension and reading vocabulary. Reading passages are presented via reusable full-colour broadsheets.

They are particularly useful for identifying groups or individual pupils making slower – or better – progress than average.

Tests provide a standardised score, a National Curriculum level, reading ages from 4:0 to 16+ and a progress score.

Assessment Content

• Phonological awareness
• Print concepts
• Word knowledge
• Word Meanings

Resources

RPT Supplement - Australian Norms PDF showing the RPT on the same scale as the Progressive Achievement Tests in Reading and Comprehension (PAT-R)

Australian Norms for Stage 1 

Australian Norms for Stage 2