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Podcast: The Structured Literacy Podcast
Episode: S5 E3 - Quick Phonics Assessment to Start the Year
Description: In this episode of the Structured Literacy podcast, Jocelyn provides a practical whole-class method for efficiently assessing phonics knowledge at the start of the school year without spending weeks on individual testing. Using whiteboards and working in manageable chunks of five graphemes per day, she demonstrates how to conduct "cold" recall tasks where students write graphemes when hearing phonemes, followed by recognition checks for struggling students, emphasising the importance of testing what's truly consolidated in long-term memory rather than recently introduced content. The approach includes practical tips such as taking videos and photos to document results, maintaining q...