Suggested Next Steps for PAT Reading

This page provides you with a direct link with the ARBs where you can find curriculum levelled activities to use as diagnostic teaching tools to provide 'in class' evidence that students know and understand a skill, or do not. Though we have changed to using Phases, kaiako can still relate the Year levels to the old curriculum levels - E.G. level 2 = Year 3 & 4

Each individual item inside any test  also provides this link to the ARBs.

The Comprehension Strategies link provides succinct descriptions of the strategies from the old Effective Literacy Handbook 1-4 and 5 -8, with links to activities to use in teaching. Kaiako can make easy connections with the new Comprehension Strategies and Critical Analysis sections of Te Mātaiaho english curriculum.

By looking across student test results, and having conversations with students around these results, your next focus might be to access the ARB resources that provide further materials for the teaching of strategies that are ākonga's next steps. 


Comprehension Strategies

Comprehending specialised language

How language works

How understanding text features benefits reading comprehension


ARB resources that focus on inference:


Making local inferences

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5


Making global inferences

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5