| Title | Teaching Phonics Working for Most Children | |
| Date | Wednesday October 01 2014, @11:19PM | |
| Author | LaminatorX | |
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| from the hooked-on-metrics dept. | ||
A recent educational policy change in the UK had children be taught phonics at a young age. Recent statistics (PDF) released by the Department for Education shows that this does appear to be working, although closer analysis shows that there is still a gap based on gender, region and social deprivation.
Teaching children to read with phonics has been a central plank of recent “Govian” education policy. A new set of statistics shows that 74% of children in the first year of primary school now meet the expected level on a phonics screening check, rising to 88% in Year 2 – a marked improvement on two years ago.
But dig down behind the numbers and it’s clear that there are still big disparities in how children perform on phonics tests based on region, gender and whether they qualify for free school meals.
Introduced in 2012, the purpose of the phonics screening check is for teachers to check that young children in Years 1 and 2 can apply a system to “decode” the sounds of words, some of which are “nonsense words” and make no sense in the English language.
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