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
Online (4 x self-paced 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 Year 1 Phonics Screening Check assesses, explore the student materials and develop an understanding of why pseudo words are used in the assessment (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