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Reading scheme at age 5 helps GCSE success
5 December 2018
Reading Recovery participants more than twice as likely than similar children to achieve five or more good GCSEs 10 years later.
A reading programme听that helps the lowest-attaining children when they are aged 5听or 6听could听boost their GCSEs scores 10 years听later, new research has found.
Reading Recovery provides one-to-one reading sessions with trained specialist teachers, for the lowest attaining children at age five and six.
Now, new research -听The impact of Reading Recovery ten years after intervention听- shows that children who took part in the programme were more than twice as likely to achieve five or more good GCSEs including English and maths than similar children who did not do Reading Recovery.
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