Warwick Partnership for Teacher Education: Phase 1 Phonics Observation Form
Date: Year Group: No. present : Time(mins):
Relevant Standards: TS3 | Context of session and or focus for observation (linked to Standards)
Notes:
 good practice should be noted. interests of the children?
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Identified and planned for children who need additional support?
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Planned, playful opportunities to explore sounds - in the environment/ related to language - linked to words and word awareness
 Enabled the learning to be further developed/consolidated within the
learning environment (inside and outside)
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Considered assessment opportunities?
Modelling listening and speaking
Does the trainee:
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Model good listening skills?
 Allow sufficient thinking time?
 Encourage children to extend their spoken communication through asking questions?
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Provide good models of spoken English – using a clear and engaging tone?
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Develop and extend children’s vocabulary and/or understanding of words?
Supporting Development
Does the session encourage children to:
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Tune into sounds/listen and remember sounds/talk about sounds?
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Listen attentively?
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Speak confidently to others?
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Discriminate phonemes?
 Reproduce audibly the phonemes they hear, in order?
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Use sound-talk to segment words into phonemes?
Additional Aspects is the session:
 Active
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Engaging
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Inclusive
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Positive
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Multi-sensory
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Well resourced
Bullet points are for prompting observation only and do not illustrate an exhaustive list. A trainee would not be expected to include all aspects above within a session; other elements of good practice should be noted.