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Literacy: Teaching Methods

Answer

The percentage of Year 1 pupils meeting the required standard in phonic decoding since 2011/12[1] can be found in the below table:[2]

Region	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
England (state-funded schools)	58	69	74	77	81	81	82
North East	60	70	75	77	82	82	83
North West	58	69	74	76	80	80	82
Yorkshire and The Humber	57	67	72	74	78	79	80
East Midlands	58	68	72	75	79	80	81
West Midlands	60	70	75	78	81	81	82
East	55	67	73	76	80	81	82
London	60	72	77	80	83	84	85
Inner London	60	73	78	81	84	84	85
Outer London	61	72	77	79	83	84	85
South East	56	68	73	77	81	82	83
South West	58	70	74	77	80	81	82

The Department also publishes the percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard of phonic decoding by the end of Year 2.^2,[3]

The Department recognises that more work needs to be done to tackle regional variations in phonics screening check results. To this end, a new national network of 32 English hubs has been announced, with £26.3 million invested to improve educational outcomes for the most disadvantaged children, particularly in underperforming schools.

Due to the success of previous phonics roadshows which help schools use systematic synthetic phonics to support reading development, the Department has invested in a further 24 phonics roadshows in 2018-19. These will take place in local authority areas where phonics screening check scores in 2018 were below the national average.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/phonics-screening-check-and-key-stage-1-assessments-england-2018. Table ‘L1’ (for year 1 pupils) and Table ‘L6’ (for year 2 pupils) in the ‘National, local authority and regional tables: national curriculum assessments in phonics screening checks in England, 2018’.

[2] Figures for 2018 are based on provisional data, data for all other years is based on final data.

[3] For 2013-2016 open the ‘phonics table’ and use ‘table 9’ at this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/phonics-screening-check-and-key-stage-1-assessments-england-2016. For 2016/17 open the ‘phonics table’ and use ‘table_9’ at this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/phonics-screening-check-and-key-stage-1-assessments-england-2017.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

189632

Session

2017-19

Subjects

Literacy Teaching methods

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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