By the end of Year 1, children should be able to:

• Say the sound for any grapheme they are shown

• Write the common graphemes for any given sound (e.g. ‘e,’ ‘ee,’ ‘ie,’ ‘ea’)

• Use their phonics knowledge to read and spell unfamiliar words of up to three syllables

• Read all of the 100 high frequency words, and be able to spell most of them

• Form letters correctly