Phonics Assessment Workbook

About This Assessment

Understanding where your child is on their phonics journey is the first step towards helping them become a confident reader.

Rather than being a test to pass or fail, this assessment provides a supportive snapshot of what your child already knows, highlights areas that may need further consolidation, and recommends clear next steps for learning.

Using carefully sequenced activities covering reading, spelling, blending, segmenting and fluency, the assessment helps you build an accurate picture of your child's current stage while celebrating their strengths along the way.

What This Assessment Covers

Throughout the assessment, your child will complete activities that assess:

• grapheme-phoneme correspondence recognition
• oral blending
• oral segmenting
• decoding real words
• decoding pseudo (alien) words
• common exception words
• spelling dictation
• sentence reading
• sentence dictation
• reading fluency

The assessment progresses through Phase 2, Phase 3, Phase 4 and Phase 5, allowing you to stop once the activities become too challenging. This provides an accurate indication of your child's current working phase without causing unnecessary frustration.

What You'll Discover

By completing the assessment, you'll be able to identify:

• your child's current phonics phase
• their strengths and secure knowledge
• sounds and spelling patterns that need further practice
• appropriate next learning goals
• recommended areas to revisit before moving on

Designed for Meaningful Assessment

Unlike simple phonics checklists, this assessment looks at how children apply their knowledge across a range of skills.

Children demonstrate their understanding by:

• recognising sounds
• blending to read words
• segmenting for spelling
• reading sentences
• writing dictated words and sentences
• applying phonics to unfamiliar words
• reading with increasing fluency

This provides a much clearer picture of phonics development than testing individual sounds alone.

Who Is This Assessment For?

This assessment is ideal for:

• parents wanting to identify gaps before they become bigger problems
• Reception and Key Stage 1 children
• home educating families
• children preparing for the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
• children who need additional phonics support or consolidation

Why Families Choose QFE

At QFE, we believe assessment should reduce uncertainty, not create pressure.

Our Phonics Progress Check has been designed to:

• provide clear and meaningful results
• identify strengths as well as gaps
• support informed next steps
• build confidence through positive assessment
• help adults make the most effective use of future phonics practice

Instead of wondering what to teach next, you'll have a clear picture of your child's current stage and exactly where to focus their learning.

A Clear Starting Point for Future Progress

Every confident reader starts with secure foundations.

The QFE Phonics Progress Check Assessment helps you understand where your child is today, so you can confidently support where they go next.