What you should be able to do
- Develop secure grapheme–phoneme correspondence with clear guided foundations.
- Develop increasingly independent decoding with clear guided foundations.
- Develop applied word building with clear guided foundations.
- Develop confident automatic recognition with clear guided foundations.
- Apply Phonics skills through short focused progress appropriate to ages 16–18.
- Reflect on progress, explain strategies used and identify a clear next step.
Course journey
Learn, practise, apply and reflect through activities adapted to ages 16–18.
Learn, practise, apply and reflect through activities adapted to ages 16–18.
Learn, practise, apply and reflect through activities adapted to ages 16–18.
Learn, practise, apply and reflect through activities adapted to ages 16–18.
How learning is evidenced
Practice evidence
Short activities, reading responses, writing tasks, discussion or applied practice depending on the pathway.
Completion task
A final age- and level-appropriate task demonstrating the key course outcomes. Successful completion can generate an RCI certificate of completion; it is not presented as a regulated qualification.
Who this pathway is for
This pathway is designed for Senior Teen learners (ages 16–18) who want to develop grapheme–phoneme correspondence, decoding, word building, automatic recognition at Foundation level.
Progression
After completion, learners can move into a higher-level pathway within Phonics, apply the skill in another literacy domain, join a Reading Ambassador pathway, or continue through the Reading Passport and Literacy App.