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What is phonics?
What is the phonics screening test?
What will the test comprise of?
Example words
How will the test be administered?
What will happen after the test?
How you can help at home – useful websites
• Way of teaching children to read skillfully.
• Children are taught how to recognise phonemes (sounds) that each
individual letter makes and identify the sounds that different
combinations of letters (graphemes) make eg. ‘oo’, ‘sh’, ‘air’ etc.
• They are then taught how to blend these phonemes together to read
the whole word.
• Children can then use their phonic knowledge to ‘de-code’ unfamiliar
words.
• In school children have 20 minutes of daily discreet phonics
teaching following the Government’s Letters and Sounds programme.
• A statutory reading check that every Year 1 child in the country
will complete in the same week.
• It will take place in school during the week beginning 16th June.
• The focus of the check is to provide evidence of children’s decoding
and blending skills, not to test their vocabulary.
• The check will consist of reading 40 words and non-words.
• The children will be asked to ‘sound out’ a word and blend the sounds
together. e.g. d-o-g – dog
• Children will be told if the word is a real or ‘alien’ (pseudo) word.
The pseudo word will be put into context by having a corresponding
alien image. The children will be asked to read the alien’s name.
• The children MUST sound out the correct phonemes and blend
together whichever graphemes form that particular word.
REMEMBER – Read what you see, not what you think you see.
• The children will complete the check one to one in a quiet area of the
school.
• We are not permitted to indicate to the children at the time whether
they have correctly sounded out and/or blended the word.
• There is no time limit and the test is designed not to be stressful for
the children.
• High standard threshold - 32 out of 40 is the pass mark.
• Doesn’t take into account children’s preferred reading styles and
children develop at different stages.
• Fluent readers alter the phonemes to create ‘real’ words. Eg. strom was
being read as storm.
• The results of each check will be sent to the Local Authority. Each
Local Authority will then submit the results to the Department for
Education.
• We will inform you of whether your child has met the national
standard.
• Children’s reading develops at different rates and if your child’s scores
fails to achieve the national standard, further support will be
implemented.
• Re-takes of the screening test for these children will take place in
Year 2.
• Revise the Phase 2, 3 & 5 graphemes at home with your child
using the Phonics sound mats.
• Practice reading the sample real and pseudo words with your child,
encouraging them to ‘sound out’ the word and blend it together.
• Help your child to use their phonic knowledge to ‘make up’ pseudo
words using single letters, digraphs and trigraphs.
• www.phonicsplay.co.uk to read real and pseudo words.
• www.oxfordowl.co.uk
• www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/alphablocks/