Implementing the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
Purpose
This professional learning provides teachers with an opportunity to develop an understanding of how to implement the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check and interpret the information it provides for planning for learning.
Who should participate?
Year 1 teachers
Mode of delivery
Self-paced online - 4 modules
Content
Completing this online course will help you to:
- explore the place of phonics in learning to read
- understand where phonics is included in the syllabus
- identify what the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check will assess
- understand why pseudo words are used in the assessment
- explore the student materials
- learn how to administer the assessment
- record student responses in the online tool
- explore what the assessment can tell us about a student’s progress in phonics.
Module 1: Why is phonics important?
Participants explore the place of phonics in learning to read and understand where phonics is included in the syllabus (20 minutes).
Module 2: Exploring the assessment
Participants identify what the phonics screening check will assess. They will develop an understanding of why pseudo words are used in the assessment and will explore the student materials (20 minutes).
Module 3: How to administer the assessment
Participants learn how to administer the assessment and record the student responses in the online tool (40 minutes).
Module 4: Interpreting the information
Participants explore what the assessment can tell us about a student’s progress in phonics (40 minutes).
Register for ‘Implementing the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check ' via MyPL (course code NR31649).
Contact
If you have any questions, contact literacy.numeracy@det.nsw.edu.au