National roll-out of Every Child a Reader

Principles underpinning the roll-out

A commitment has been made to government funding so that by 2011 30,000 children a year will be supported through Every Child a Reader.

The key principles underpinning the roll-out are that

• The children receiving Reading Recovery should be the lowest achieving 5% of six year old children nationally
• We should work over time towards a position where every child in this lowest-achieving group can access the intervention, no matter where they live or how many other children in their school require this help
• The next lowest-achieving 15% of children should be supported through lighter-touch, ‘layered’ literacy interventions, for example delivered by teaching assistants supported by trained Reading Recovery teachers
•  It is essential to preserve the quality and high impact of Every Child a Reader interventions. Expansion should be at a pace that allows this quality to be maintained.

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Practicalities of the roll-out