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.
For further information, please follow the links below.
Practicalities of the roll-out
Information for local authorities



