Phonics Screening Check
What is the phonic screening check?
In the summer term of Year 1, the children complete a statutory phonics screening check. This is a short, light-touch assessment introduced by the Government for the first time in 2012 to confirm whether individual pupils have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard.
The screening comprises a list of 40 real and nonsense-words (pseudo words), which your child read one-to-one with a teacher. Pseudo words allow the assessment to focus purely on decoding phonic knowledge. As pseudo-words are new to all children, they do not favour those with a good vocab knowledge or large sight word memory. The words in the screening incorporate phonics skills acquired by the children in both Year 1 and Year R. It is conducted in a quiet room without distractions.
Section 1 Section 1 of the test comprises 12 pseudo-words and 8 real words. It focuses on GPCs that are usually introduced first to children learning to decode using phonics. Section 2 Section 2 of the test comprises 8 pseudo-words and 12 real words. It focuses on GPCs that are introduced later, and graphemes that correspond to more than one phoneme. Pseudo-words – acceptable pronunciations. Strict guidance is given in regards to the acceptable pronunciations of the pseudo-words. These samples are taken from section 2 of the 2012 check.
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This item uses the ‘spl’ from ‘split’ and rhymes with ‘saw’ |
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 splaw |
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This item uses the ‘g’ from ‘girl’ and rhymes with ‘first’ |
 girst |
The National threshold of achievement in the phonics screening is 80%. Those children in Year 1 who do not meet the assessment threshold will complete the screening again during the summer of Year 2.
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