In the phonics screening check, children are presented with 40 words to read. These include words such as "boy," "dreams" and "elbow," but the assessment also includes pseudo words such as "bep ...

there is much disagreement about the methods used for teaching children to read. The latest bone of contention has been the introduction of the Phonics Screening Check, a test devised by the ...

The Department for Education has now released the results of the 2023/24 school year phonics screening check, a test children ... well as they learn to read and write going forwards.

In the state’s third successive improvement, the 2021 phonics screening check results ... “Children learn to read using texts that are decodable, focusing on the sounds and tricky words ...