debbie
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 Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:32 pm Post subject: TES article: Heads read the riot act over new phonics test |
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http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6196131
| Quote: | There is growing concern that the high number of marks needed to pass new Year 1 phonics tests will demoralise children, and even put them off reading.
Only a third of pupils passed the pilot study, carried out in 300 schools last year. And the government has no plans to lower the threshold when it is rolled out nationally this summer, it has emerged.
The phonics screening check, as the test is officially known, will consist of 40 words and non-words that children read aloud to their teacher, and should take pupils between four and nine minutes to complete. |
Here we go again - the alarmists protest.
Part of my 'comment' on the TES:
| Quote: | Surely both teachers and parents should have serious curiousity to see how well we can teach and how well children can learn - with something SO fundamentally important as basic literacy skills - which is, without doubt, life-chance stuff.
Meanwhile, let's look at what this means for our five and six year olds. By the end of Year One, they will have decoded hundreds and hundreds of words which of course were new and unknown to them as they are 'beginner' readers. Reading a few more words well presented in a thoughtfully provided font and with only a few words per page is not the big deal people are making it out to be. |
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