Arguments against Y1 phonics check have been discredited

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Arguments against Y1 phonics check have been discredited

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This is a great post by Andrew Old via his 'Scenes From The Battleground' site:


https://teachingbattleground.wordpress. ... scredited/

This is also a good place to flag up my response to David Reedy of the United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA) which really highlights the so-called 'arguments' against the nature and use of the Year One Phonics Screening Check. This check is statutory (in law) and taken at the end of Year One (for six year olds after two years of formal planned Systematic Synthetic Phonics) in England:

http://www.phonicsinternational.com/reedy_response.pdf
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Here is a blog posting on the topic of the Year One Phonics Screening Check in England:

Mother courage of the reading wars


https://mainstreamsen.wordpress.com/201 ... ding-wars/
The argument from SSP advocates is that there are 20% of adults who are functionally illiterate – the check, they say, will prevent any child being unable to read. That reading changes lives – we would be mad not to agree, of course. My experience however is that it is the few not the many who require support and these needs should be personalised; listening to a child reading diagnostically will capture this. Analytic phonics may be required alongside SSP for instance, or work on vocabulary might be important. Do they have memory difficulties? Poor phonological awareness? Slow processing speed?

So does the Phonics Check sound Tippitty Top still?

Well not really, for a number of reasons:
Of course I've made a comment but quite late in the conversation.
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