@jpembroke tweeted:
Back in February 2016, on this IFERI thread http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... =548&p=812, Debbie wrotePhonics results: based on early national from @PerspectiveEdu, when rounded same as 2016 (81%). Plateau?
Susan Godsland (IFERI committee member) and I predict that England's results for the Year One Phonics Screening Check will stall out between 80% and 85% at best whilesoever England's teachers continue with an eclectic mix of some systematic synthetic phonics but 'multi-cueing searchlights reading strategies' for word-guessing - and their continued use of reading books which enforce children to guess at words or to try to memorise whole words and sentences through familiarity with the books. The national average result in 2015 was 77% of England's Year One children reaching or exceeding the benchmark for the phonics check (that is, 32 out of 40 words read correctly or plausibly in the case of the pseudo words).