Run reports
You can view student results through the Phonics Check platform itself or export results to Excel through the ‘Reporting’ section:
- Group report: contains results for a whole class or group of students. Generate this report first to see trends across a class, and identify struggling, developing and fluent decoders.
- Individual student report: contains results for a single student. Use this report to drill down on specific needs for struggling decoders.
- Multi-class report (school administrators only): contains results for all students who have sat the Phonics Check in that calendar year. Use this report to look for trends across a cohort.
For details on how to run reports, see the Phonics Check user manual.
Video: Understanding group reports [3:01]
Video: Understanding individual student reports [4:35]
Visualise and analyse data
Use the Literacy Hub's Word and code complexity continuum to analyse group and individual results. This continuum arranges the 40 words from the Phonics Check in order of increasing complexity.
Follow the videos below to add your student data to the continuum and begin to analyse student strengths and areas of needs.
Video: Analysing individual student reports [14:51]
Video: Analysing group reports [12:38]
Respond to analysis findings
Once you have identified student strengths and areas of need using the continuum, follow the videos below to start to plan your response.
Video: Responding to group analysis findings [8:25]
Video: Responding to analysis findings for individual student reports [18:01]
Depending on the needs your classroom, you may have to plan for intervention for small groups and individual students. For all tiers of intervention, follow a systematic synthetic phonics approach using explicit instruction principles. For further guidance, see Implementing a systematic synthetic phonics approach.
Further reading
This guide explains how to analyse your data from the Year 1 Phonics Check, and how to use it to inform your instruction.
