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Bedrock's Reading Test
Spend on improvement, not testing
Would you like to stop spending precious budget on standardised reading tests, and start investing more in improving literacy instead?
If you are spending money on any reading tests, such as NGRT, STAR or Access Reading Tests, now’s the time to make the switch. When you buy Bedrock's improvement platform for a key stage, you'll receive our market-leading reading test for free.
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An introduction to our reading test
Watch our short video to learn more about how Bedrock's Reading Test can support outcomes in your school or trust.
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The Bedrock Reading Test
Our rigorous, standardised and cost-effective reading test provides you with comprehensive, actionable insights you need to optimise teaching strategy and improve outcomes in your school.
Support struggling students
Identify those needing additional support, so no one gets left behind.
Measure progress over time
Monitor the progress and impact of interventions at a student, class, group and whole-school level.
Turning data into insights
Provide all teachers with reliable, actionable, real-time data on reading ability.
Identify the challenges
Understand which subskills students are struggling with, enabling targeted interventions and improvement.
Benchmark across cohorts
Internally and externally benchmark your students to better understand their progress.
Free with Bedrock
Bedrock's Reading Test is completely free when you purchase our improvement platform for a key stage at your school.
A new approach to reading assessment!
A variety of question types
Our reading test leverages a variety of question types, increasing student engagement to generate a more accurate and comprehensive assessment designed to test specific subskills.
A wide range of text types and genres
Through a selection of text types and genres - including poetry, classic literature, biographies and articles - Bedrock provides a holistic assessment of reading skills aligned with age-related National Curriculum expectations.
Set up tests for your whole school in just a few minutes
Save time on set-up and reduce the number of staff needed to facilitate tests: “I've just scheduled reading tests for my entire Year 7 cohort. It's taken me four minutes. That's amazing and so much quicker than we'd ever be able to sort it with our previous assessment software.”
Navigate interruptions and save money
Navigate interruptions, minimise token wastage and save money with our host of flexible features which allow you to pause & play, reschedule or void a test without incurring additional costs.
Granular data insights
Easily identify students’ areas of strength and weakness, empowering you to implement targeted interventions, track progress, and align strategies for enhanced reading outcomes.
Developed with leading experts
Our construct was developed with expert consultation from Professors Kate Nation and Jessie Ricketts, and the test was developed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre. Our test is fully adaptive and standardised on over 11,250 pupils with national benchmarks and reporting across a range of metrics including subskill, Reading Age and Standard Age Score.
Learn how we developed our Reading Test
Accurate reading assessments which deliver actionable data insights are critical to supporting literacy development in your school. Find out how we developed the Bedrock Reading Test to ensure you have the data you need to develop and implement your literacy strategy.
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Not sure which test is right for you?
Check out our handy reading test comparison guide to find the right test for your school.
Reading Test subscription options
We want you to have more money in your budget to spend on improving literacy, not just testing it. There are three options:
- Schools with a Full Key Stage Subscription - Free testing bundle (up to 3 tests per student, per year)
- Schools with a Partial Key Stage Subscription - Up to £2 per test
- Reading Test Only - Up to £4 per test
Try our Reading Test calculator to see how much you could save
Created by experts in reading and assessment
"I've just scheduled reading tests for my entire Year 7 cohort. It's taken me four minutes. That's amazing and so much quicker than we'd ever be able to sort it with our previous assessment software."
Kings Langley School , Assistant Head
"There are so many sub-skills to reading. There's inference, there's retrieval. You've got text complexity, you've got lexicon-grammatical complexity. There are different text types and argument structures. We've worked to break these down so they can each be assessed to give a truly detailed and accurate picture of every learner."
Martine Holland , Former Head of Assessment at Bedrock Learning
"The ultimate goal of reading is for comprehension, so that we can read for enjoyment and to learn. Reading comprehension needs will present a barrier to learning so it is crucial that we use robust assessment approaches that allow us to identify reading comprehension needs."
Jessie Ricketts , Professor, Royal Holloway University of London, Reading & Language Development
"I'm so excited. This is a serious reading test. One of the things that sold it to me was the deep thought that's gone into making sure the reading test framework supports reading requirements across different exam boards."
Harris Federation, London , Trust Secondary Director
"Assessing reading is an incredibly complex process. To be able to break the process of reading down into its constituent parts, and assess them, is obviously challenging... and that's exactly why we are investing in supporting teachers to answer this question in their classrooms."
Olivia Sumpter , Dir. of Education at Bedrock Learning, ex-Head of English
"The Bedrock reading test is excellent. We use it across all our schools and it forms a key part of our diagnostic process. Our reading programme is having enormous impact on our young people - we taught 251 students to read across our three secondary schools last year - that’s 251 young people who had never learned at primary school and who will now have doors opened to them like never before. Bedrock Learning continues to be a big part of our journey."
Carlton Academy Trust , Jennifer Webb, Director of English and Literacy
"We found the test process very clear and accessible to use and the information received at the end of the tests was extremely valuable."
Coopers School , Literacy Coordinator
It's time to make the switch
Discover how to get your free reading tests with our dedicated team of experts.
A next-generation reading test from Bedrock Learning