Phonics

Teaching and assessing phonics, phonics performance data.

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Services

1. Phonics self-assessment form: Sound Discovery

   Information about the Sound Discovery programme and how it fulfils the department’s core criteria.

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Guidance and regulation

1. Letters and sounds
   • Guidance
   • 1 April 2007
   • Department for Education
2. Phonics screening check: 2019 materials
   • Guidance
   • 24 June 2019
   • Standards and Testing Agency
3. Key stage 1: phonics screening check administration guidance
   • Guidance
   • 29 April 2019
   • Standards and Testing Agency
4. Phonics screening check: 2018 materials
   • Guidance
   • 25 June 2018
   • Standards and Testing Agency
5. Phonics screening check: 2017 materials
   • Guidance
   • 26 June 2017
   • Standards and Testing Agency

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News and communications

26 September 2019 — Press release

Free schools leading the way with top primary school results

Department for Education

1. More children on track to be fluent readers in primary school
   • 27 September 2018
   • Department for Education
   • News story
2. Nick Gibb: reading is the key to unlocking human potential
   • 5 December 2017
   • Department for Education
   • Speech
3. Primary education
   • 19 October 2016
   • Department for Education and Standards and Testing Agency
   • Written statement
4. Thousands more primary pupils on track to be excellent readers
   • 29 September 2016
   • Department for Education
   • Press release

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Research and statistics

1. Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2019
   • 20 December 2019
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics
2. Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2018
   • 25 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics
3. Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2017
   • 26 July 2018
   • Department for Education and Standards and Testing Agency
   • National statistics
4. Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2016
   • 11 May 2018
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics
5. 2015 Maladministration report
   • 9 November 2016
   • Standards and Testing Agency
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Reading: supporting higher standards in schools
   • 5 March 2015
   • Department for Education
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Curriculum fund programme pilots: list of lead schools
   • 16 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
2. English hubs: list of primary schools
   • 30 May 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
3. Phonics screening pilot at year 3
   • 2 February 2017
   • Department for Education and Standards and Testing Agency
   • Transparency
4. Phonics: year 1 screening check statistics
   • 25 September 2014
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Department for Education
2. Standards & Testing Agency