Reading Planet Catalogue 2024 - Catalog - Page 25
In 2021, we launched a two-year Impact Trial in a selected group of UK primary
schools. Working with independent evaluators from Nottingham Trent University
and the University of Birmingham, the Trial aimed to measure the impact of Rocket
Phonics on reading attainment and reading enjoyment in comparison with other
schools using other SSP programmes.
ROCKET PHONICS
Impact Trial 2021-2023
Findings have shown that Rocket Phonics is a well-liked, easy-to-use programme
which is effective in teaching and embedding the phonics skills children need to
become successful readers.
KEY RESEARCH FINDINGS
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Trial Report
Nearly all pupils using Rocket Phonics, including those
starting Year 1 with very low phonics knowledge, made a
rapid and measurable increase in phonics knowledge by the end
of the year indicating that the programme works for children across a
range of abilities.
Compared with those using other SSP programmes, teachers’
attitudes towards teaching phonics were far more positive amongst
Rocket Phonics schools.
Average scores from PiRA, Hodder’s standardised reading test, showed
that attainment in schools using Rocket Phonics was lower than those
in the non-user schools at the start of Reception. By the end of the
year, this had shifted to slightly above non-user schools, although
these data were not statistically significant.
Teachers using Rocket Phonics believe that the resources work: across
both years in which data was captured, 100% said the resources
benefitted the children.
I’ve taught Year 1 children for a few
years now and noticed a big difference
in the children that came up this year.
They knew a lot more sounds...they
were just more confident and their
reading level seems to be higher...it’s
because of you, your magic.
Trial school
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