Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the end of year one, when they are five or six, all children at state schools in England must take a test called the phonics ...

It’s astonishing that much of what is written in opposition to the Phonics Screening Check is inaccurate, given that information about it is very easy to find. The UK government publishes a collection ...

The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six in England can “decode” words – has been raised to 90%. This increase, ...

A study to look at the validity of the new phonics screening test, undertaken by year 1 pupils in England, has concluded that it is a valid but unnecessary test. The test does help identify school ...

Samantha Hill, assistant head at Orchard Manor School, is calling for more suitable ways for children who cannot speak to have their reading ability tested A special school in Devon is petitioning the ...

Pupils read aloud a mixture of 40 real and made-up words, sounding them out phonetically The new phonics tests for six-year-olds in England is successfully identifying children who struggle to read, ...

It all starts with words – and what makes a word. And SA is smashing it so well that other states want to copy us. In the state’s third successive improvement, the 2021 phonics screening check results ...

At the end of year one, when they are five or six, all children at state schools in England must take a test called the phonics screening check. The check measures their ability to use synthetic ...

The new phonics tests for six-year-olds in England is successfully identifying children who struggle to read, but is no more informative than existing teacher assessment, research suggests. The ...