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Overview
• What is the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check?
• Why was it introduced and made compulsory?
• What do the results of the first Check in 2012 tell us?
• Is it good for our children?
What is in the check?
• 40 words
• Progression from easier words to expected level
• Real words and nonsense words
• Common real words and less common real words
• One syllable and two syllable words
Phonics Check Graphemes
Section 1
s t p m b n c d
f g h j k l r v
w y z x ss ff ll zz
ck sh ch th ng qu
a i e o u
ee oi oo or ar
Blending Consonants
Section 1:
vcc act
ccvc trip
ccvvc snort
ccvcc plush
cvcc mulp
cvvcc doost
ccvcc thump
Phonics Check Words 2012
Section 1
pib vus yop elt
desh chab poil queep
stin proom sarps thend
chip jazz farm thorn
stop truck jump lords
Phonics Check Graphemes
Section 2
ph wh
a-e e-e i-e o-e u-e
ai ay ie igh ea oy
oa ow ou
au aw ew ue
ir ur air
Blending Consonants
Section 2:
ccvcv trade
ccvvc plied
cccvcc thrill
cvvcc burst
ccvcc gland
ccvvcc craint
cccvcc shrimp
cccvv sclow
cccvc strop
cccvc v splime
cccvc c scrimp
Phonics Check Words 2012
Section 2
kigh girst baim yune
flods groiks strom splaw
fair flute goat shine
crept shrubs scrap stroke
index turnip waiting portrait
How is it administered?
• one-to-one
• with a teacher the child knows
• takes 4 – 9 minutes with most children
What is allowed?
• either sound and blend the word or just say the word
• in any accent
• taking into account any difficulties with pronunciation
• self-correcting
• being generally encouraged
What is not allowed?
• saying the sounds without blending
• being encouraged to have another go
• having several goes
and then having the correct one accepted
(The final one must be scored.)
• being told whether correct or not
What is the threshold for success?
31 to 34 out of 40 words to be read accurately
(32 words in June 2012)
Timetable Summary
• Now available on line Check administrators’ guide
• 3-7 June Receive Phonics Check materials.
• 17-21 June Administer the Phonics Check.
• End of summer term Submit results.
What happens
if children do not succeed?
School provides extra support.
Children are checked again near the end of Y2.
Who sees the results?
• Parents
– only their own child’s
• Ofsted and Local Authorities
– school-level results on RaiseOnline
• Anyone
– local authority and national results
Sources for More Information
• Year 1 phonics screening check FAQs
• Key Stage 1 Assessment and reporting arrangements
• Check administrators’ guide: Phonics screening check
• Phonics Performance Descriptor
• Year 1 phonics screening check training video
from www.education.gov.uk
The Need to Improve Teaching
“Although this country is one of the world’s highest
spenders on education, too many children are
failing. When teachers should be helping children to
develop a lifetime’s love of reading, poor teaching
strategies and practices are condemning too many
children to a lifelong struggle.”
Nick Gibb 2011
Purpose for Individual Children
• to confirm that individual children
have grasped the basics of decoding
• to identify children who need extra help
Purpose for Parents
• to give parents confidence that their child
has learnt the crucial skill of phonic decoding
Purpose for Schools
• to provide a national benchmark for phonic decoding
• to allow schools to judge their performance
• to encourage schools to set high expectations
Purpose for Government
• to provide an annual national snapshot of decoding
• to ensure that government is accountable for
the effectiveness of the methods it promotes
Conclusion
Either:
• The standard was too high for 42% of Year 1 children.
or
• Schools should change what they do in order to
ensure that nearly all children succeed.
Who reached the expected standard?
• girls: 62%
• boys: 54%
• eligible for free school meals: 44%
• Indian ethnicity: 70%
• travellers/gypsies: 16%
• with English an additional language: 58%
One Conclusion
Children with English as an additional language
are as good at decoding as other children.
What about individual schools?
The government has not published the results
of individual schools.
Some schools have published their results.
An Example of an Individual School
A school in Wandsworth:
• 97% succeeded.
• 55% entitled to free school meals
• 29% registered with special educational needs
An Example of an Individual School
A school in Hackney:
• 93% succeeded.
• 55% entitled to free school meals
• 32% registered with special educational needs
An Example of an Individual School
A school in Gateshead:
• 93% succeeded.
• 28% entitled to free school meals.
• 19% registered with special educational needs
An Example of an Individual School
A school in Weston-super-Mare
• 35% succeeded in the pilot year.
• 88% succeeded in 2012.
Conclusion
Either the children:
• could not decode accurately
or
• were careless on the day
or
• were used to reading by guessing words they
already knew without looking at the letters carefully
A Phonetic Language?
Some words have unusual letter-sound correspondences.
two they one sugar are yacht sign
The Phonics Check includes only common correspondences.
More to Reading than Phonics
How can this be a good check of children’s
reading? There is more to reading than phonics.
More to Reading than Phonics
This is only a check of simple decoding.
Higher order reading skills can be checked later.
A Rich Language Curriculum
There is no reason why this should happen.
The English curriculum should include phonics,
developing spoken language, listening to an adult
reading, poetry, rhymes, ...
New Information?
Some teachers were surprised by the results.
Others learned specific information:
“I know from the children I've used the check with
that there is a group who need more work decoding
words with split vowels.”
New Information?
Some teachers did know which children could
not decode the words.
These children had not been taught the code.
Children’s Development
Some children may not be ready for phonics in Year 1.
Would it not be better to wait?
Children’s Development
Children who are considered not ready for phonics
are in danger of falling further and further behind.
Labelled as Failing?
Of course not.
A quote from the TES message board:
“Ours saw it as a huge treat and even asked if
they could come again today.”
Children who struggle to decode do not like reading
Children who can decode easily can enjoy reading.
Reading for Pleasure
Other Strategies
Every child is different.
Should children not choose from a range of strategies
to read words?
Other Strategies
Memorising whole words by shape and patterns?
It is impossible to remember enough words
or to read unfamilar words.
Angelina
• The teacher stopped teaching Angelina phonics.
• She showed Angelina pictures with words under.
• Angelina learned to read many words.
horse
Other Strategies
Guessing from context or first letter?
It does not work, except with texts for young children.
It may become a habit that is difficult to break.
Nonsense Words
A child who reads strom as storm has a problem.
Children taught to read with phonics from the start
do not make this sort of mistake.
Lewis
• 10 years old
• articulate
• professional parents
• used context and a few letters to guess words
• read at 7 year old level
Teachers – Professionals
Surely, the government should trust teachers
and not impose this phonics check.
Teachers – Professionals
Many teachers have not been trained in the
teaching of reading and the alphabetic code.
Teachers – Professionals
Some teachers are desperate to teach every child
to read, but they are not supported by senior
management.
Unfortunately, some schools need an incentive to
ensure the necessary support.
Expensive
It must be worth it if it means that all children
receive the help they need to read
before they begin Key Stage 2.
Reading for Meaning
Will the Phonics Check encourage decoding
at the expense of reading for meaning?
Guess from the context
or
use phonics to read words accurately
and context to get to the meaning?
Which is best for reading for meaning?
A Quiz about Reading for Meaning
Can you use
• phonics to read unfamiliar words
• context to get close to the meaning of those words?
Reading for Meaning
The tippet is back in fashion. Tippets are exactly
what you should be wearing over your winter
coat if you want to fit in with this season's
elegant 50s look.
Can you pronounce it?
What does it mean?
Certain gastropods use their radula teeth to
hunt other gastropods and bivalve molluscs,
scraping away the soft parts for ingestion.
Can you pronounce it?
What does it mean?
Reading for Meaning
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