Phase 3 Teacher Assessment Sheet - Phonics Phase 3 - Resource

The Phase 3 Teacher Assessment Sheet is an essential resource from the All Aboard Phonics Phase 3 Teacher Manual, designed to evaluate a pupil's proficiency in phonics. It is structured to assess various skills including grapheme recognition, sounding out and blending, as well as the ability to read 'tricky' and nonsense words. For grapheme recognition, the pupil is asked to identify the phoneme associated with each grapheme presented. The teacher will mark 'yes' or 'no' to indicate whether the pupil can say and write the correct phoneme for each grapheme.

The assessment continues with exercises that test the pupil's ability to sound out phonemes in words and then blend them to say the word correctly. A list of words is provided for this purpose, and the teacher marks the pupil's performance on both sounding out and blending. The next part of the assessment involves reading 'tricky words'—common words that may not follow standard phonetic rules. The pupil's ability to read these words is noted with a 'yes' or 'no'. Similarly, the pupil is asked to read a list of nonsense words, which helps to evaluate their phonetic decoding skills. Finally, the assessment includes an eye tracking exercise where the pupil reads two passages of text in different font sizes to determine if they have difficulty with visual tracking, which may affect reading ability. The results of this assessment guide the teacher in providing targeted support to enhance the pupil's reading skills.