Suffolk Reading Score

[janinlondon]

Each of the kids in our school is given a Suffolk reading score in their end of term report. As far as I know, no one ever discusses them apart from that. Except for one Mum who told me her daughter had no score as she "was off the scale". Now I am a complete imbecile on this, so can someone intelligent enlighten me. Is it possible to be off the scale on Suffolk? (I just smiled and said "How Lovely", by the way)

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Ha ha snorkle - never thought of that! I wonder if the question could be posed of any reading age assessment tool though - can a student be so advanced that they are unassessable - so to speak? Have to say its not a problem I am anticipating in our household!!

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Oooh Celia2 you are an expert then?? She's six. When she was five they gave her a reading age of 12 (apparently!). I really don't understand the scoring system though. We just got a three digit number. What on earth does it mean???

Bumping in the hope Celia2 might be online.

I think you are referring to the Suffolk Nfer tests. They will give a reading score, 100 means reading at their age - 110 means reading above their age, and 90 would be below their age.

A child could be off the scale meaning that the test doesn't cater for their needs - so a really good reader may not be adequately picked up on the test. In this case, we would retest them on a harder test, and still get a reading age. That doesn't necessarily mean they read like a 12 year old when she is 5 (highly unlikely), probably more like a couple of years above their chronological age.

Thanks for that ratfly. Is there a website somewhere that shows what reading age equates to what three digit number? How high do Suffolk scores go? (Sorry - being nosey now!)

If it is the Nfer test, a 3 digit number wouldn't really give a reading age, just a relative score, so 100 is average for their age above 100 is above average and below 100 is below average.

Out of interest, what was the number?

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Celia2 and snorkle thanks so much. The link is especially useful and explains exactly what I wanted to know!