11. Keith Stanovich: “read a lot” children read in 2 days what “not a lot” children read in a year! Jim Rose: If the number of words you can read is lower than the number of words you can speak you cannot be educated
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25. Literacy Programme progress 1/3 of cohort scored well below average reading age 54% of these improved RA and left programme before end of year 73% of those remaining for whole year improved their RA by at least 16 month (of these 19% by 24 months or twice the time on the programme) 22% pupils of original group recommended for continued support in the Yr 8 programme
41. “ No single place at school is more important in developing reading than the school library” (Paul Kropp, The Reading Solution) “My vision of learning for children and young people in the future, has the library, in all its forms, at its heart.” Professor Tim Brighouse The way to get children reading is to leave the library door open and let them read anything and everything they want. ‘Terry Pratchett’
What is a LP. How we were selected. Our role. I have been coming to conferences since 1985- many familiar faces who have probably heard all about what I do already and you all probably do many similar things in your schools.
