This post contains links to the DfE website with details for the Year 1 phonics screening check and links to related information and articles that also appear as separate posts on this site.
TES article – The high pass mark for the Year 1 check is causing disquiet.
DfE Teaching and Learning – Assessment and reporting arrangements: Year 1 phonics check.
DfE Teaching and Learning - Year 1 phonics screening check.
Year 1 phonics screening check – sample materials.
DfE news – Schools Minister Nick Gibb today said that the Government was “unashamedly ambitious” in its bid to drive up the standard of children’s reading.
BBC Education News – Two-thirds ‘fail new primary phonics reading check’.
An open letter to the Secretary of State for Education.
UK Literacy Association – Latest news on UKLA’s campaign against phonics test for 6 year olds.
BBC News – The government’s new reading test for six-year-olds is a waste of money that will not identify youngsters’ needs, experts have warned.
DfE teaching and learning – Year 1 phonics screening check framework.
Year 1 phonics screening check – Framework for pilot in 2011.
TES article – About 10,000 five and six-year-olds took the phonics screening check this week, amid mounting criticisms of the policy.
TES article – More than three-quarters of parents are not aware of a new reading test for primary children set to be introduced across the country next year.
TES article – Parliamentary pressure is growing against the Government’s plans for a national phonics tests for all six-year-olds. Both the former and current chairs of the Commons education select committee have demanded changes to the proposal to screen children’s phonic ability in a 10-minute test during Year 1.
TES article – The cost of piloting controversial new reading tests for all pupils at the end of Year 1 is being kept secret by the Government.
TES article – Phonics expert labels Year 1 test plans ‘a waste of money’.
TES letter – Nonsense words spell a nonsensical future.
AAIA Response to Y1 Phonics Screening Check Consultation.
DfE news – announcement of plans and public consultation for a phonics-based progress check in Year 1.
The purpose of this new document is to outline how assessment can be used in schools to improve learning for all pupils and to provide a framework for school review and self-evaluation.