2024 Phonics Screening Check
Download the 2024 Year 1 Phonics Screening Check materials for free, including the practice materials, assessment materials, answer sheet, scoring guidance, word list, PowerPoint presentation and a complete ZIP file.
The 2024 check was given to all children in Year 1 in England in June 2024. Schools chose a day within the week commencing 10th June 2024, with larger schools spreading the check across several days. It included a mix of real words and pseudo-words.
2024 Phonics Screening Check Past Papers
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| Year | Practice Materials | Assessment Materials | Answer Sheet | Scoring Guidance | Spelling Materials | PowerPoint | Complete ZIP File ⓘZip file with all standard resources bundled together | Premium Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2024 Phonics Practice Materialsⓘ 2024 Phonics Screening Test Practice MaterialsThis 2024 practice sheet helps familiarise Year 1 children with the format of the Phonics Screening Check before the statutory assessment. It provides example real words (in, at, beg, sum) and pseudo-words (ot, vap, osk, ect) for practice. Teachers can use these sheets to introduce pupils to the task of decoding both familiar and unfamiliar words aloud. Questions: 8 | 2024 Phonics Assessment Materialsⓘ 2024 Phonics Screening Test Assessment MaterialsThe official 2024 Phonics Screening Check pupils' materials containing the 40 words a Year 1 child reads aloud to their teacher. The check is divided into Section 1 and Section 2, each containing a mix of real words (such as sort, chill, stripe, dolphin) and pseudo-words (such as zeg, sheb, brop, clune) to assess decoding skills. Questions: 40 | 2024 Phonics Answer Sheetⓘ 2024 Phonics Screening Test Answer SheetThis is the teacher's answer sheet for the 2024 Phonics Screening Check. It provides a grid to record each child's responses across Section 1 and Section 2, with tick-boxes to mark each of the 40 words as correct or incorrect. The sheet includes both real words (such as shin, sort, sneak, dolphin) and pseudo-words (such as nop, yim, bew, clune), with space for optional comments and a total score. Questions: 40 | 2024 Phonics Scoring Guidanceⓘ 2024 Phonics Screening Test Scoring GuidanceThis is the official scoring guidance for teachers administering the 2024 Phonics Screening Check. It lists the acceptable pronunciations for each of the 20 pseudo-words across Section 1 and Section 2, including phonemic representations and rhyming examples. The guidance clarifies that all plausible alternative and regional pronunciations are acceptable when a child is decoding pseudo-words. | ||||
| Source: Standards and Testing Agency (STA) | Open Government Licence |
About these 2024 Year 1 Phonics papers
- KS1 Phonics 2024 Phonics Check Practice Materials
- This 2024 practice sheet helps familiarise Year 1 children with the format of the Phonics Screening Check before the statutory assessment. It provides example real words (in, at, beg, sum) and pseudo-words (ot, vap, osk, ect) for practice. Teachers can use these sheets to introduce pupils to the task of decoding both familiar and unfamiliar words aloud.
- KS1 Phonics 2024 Phonics Check Assessment Materials
- The official 2024 Phonics Screening Check pupils' materials containing the 40 words a Year 1 child reads aloud to their teacher. The check is divided into Section 1 and Section 2, each containing a mix of real words (such as sort, chill, stripe, dolphin) and pseudo-words (such as zeg, sheb, brop, clune) to assess decoding skills.
- KS1 Phonics 2024 Phonics Check Answer Sheet
- This is the teacher's answer sheet for the 2024 Phonics Screening Check. It provides a grid to record each child's responses across Section 1 and Section 2, with tick-boxes to mark each of the 40 words as correct or incorrect. The sheet includes both real words (such as shin, sort, sneak, dolphin) and pseudo-words (such as nop, yim, bew, clune), with space for optional comments and a total score.
- KS1 Phonics 2024 Phonics Check Scoring Guidance
- This is the official scoring guidance for teachers administering the 2024 Phonics Screening Check. It lists the acceptable pronunciations for each of the 20 pseudo-words across Section 1 and Section 2, including phonemic representations and rhyming examples. The guidance clarifies that all plausible alternative and regional pronunciations are acceptable when a child is decoding pseudo-words.
2024 Phonics Screening Check Word List
Below are all 40 words used in the 2024 Phonics Screening Check. Each is either a real word or a pseudo-word (a made-up, nonsense word that checks a child's decoding skills rather than their vocabulary).
| Question | Word | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | nop | Pseudo |
| 2 | yim | Pseudo |
| 3 | zeg | Pseudo |
| 4 | ild | Pseudo |
| 5 | jick | Pseudo |
| 6 | sheb | Pseudo |
| 7 | deeg | Pseudo |
| 8 | quish | Pseudo |
| 9 | brop | Pseudo |
| 10 | sleen | Pseudo |
| 11 | sint | Pseudo |
| 12 | doilt | Pseudo |
| 13 | shin | Real |
| 14 | fang | Real |
| 15 | sort | Real |
| 16 | chill | Real |
| 17 | fled | Real |
| 18 | speck | Real |
| 19 | ramp | Real |
| 20 | corns | Real |
| 21 | bew | Pseudo |
| 22 | clune | Pseudo |
| 23 | baup | Pseudo |
| 24 | cheve | Pseudo |
| 25 | blenk | Pseudo |
| 26 | froast | Pseudo |
| 27 | scrup | Pseudo |
| 28 | sprace | Pseudo |
| 29 | bar | Real |
| 30 | sneak | Real |
| 31 | curl | Real |
| 32 | doze | Real |
| 33 | plank | Real |
| 34 | shrimp | Real |
| 35 | split | Real |
| 36 | stripe | Real |
| 37 | relay | Real |
| 38 | ending | Real |
| 39 | dolphin | Real |
| 40 | crackers | Real |
20 real words, 20 pseudo-words.
2024 Phonics Screening Check Pass Mark & Threshold
The pass mark (threshold) for the 2024 Phonics Screening Check was 32 out of 40. A child needed to read at least 32 of the 40 words correctly to meet the expected standard.
Any child who did not meet the standard retook the check the following year, in Year 2. So children who missed the mark in the 2023 Phonics Screening Check sat this 2024 check in Year 2.
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FAQ
Is the 2024 Phonics Screening Check free to download?
Yes. The full 2024 Phonics Screening Check is free to download. It includes the Pupils' Materials booklet (with words for the child to read aloud) and the Answer Sheet for the teacher.
Where does the 2024 Phonics Screening Check come from?
The Phonics Screening Check is produced annually by the Standards and Testing Agency (STA), part of the Department for Education, and published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
What was the pass mark for the 2024 Phonics Screening Check?
The pass mark (threshold) for the 2024 Phonics Screening Check was 32 out of 40. Any child who scored below 32 retook the check the following year.
Who sat the 2024 Phonics Screening Check?
Two groups sat the 2024 check: Year 1 children, aged 5 to 6 (born between 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2019); and Year 2 children who did not meet the expected standard in the 2023 check and were retaking it. For how the check works, see the Phonics Screening page.
What happened if my child did not pass the 2024 Phonics Screening Check?
A child who did not meet the expected standard (32 out of 40) in the 2024 check retook it in Year 2, the following year, in 2025.
