Boris Johnson plans ’emergency’ literacy push as shock figures reveal hundreds of thousands of primary pupils will head to secondary school unable to read properly due to Covid 200,000 primary school pupils could head to secondary with poor literacy skills Boris Johnson expected to unveil new four-year ’emergency’ plan in May English students have lost … Read more
No one can fault his timing. Bill Bryson, the much-loved and arguably the most successful travel writer there’s ever been, is hanging up his pen just as it’s become impossible to travel anywhere. At least, almost impossible. I’m not sure Bryson would go a bundle on swabs being shoved up his nose 72 hours before … Read more
Playing video games can help literacy, creativity and wellbeing among young people, new research suggests. An interest in gaming can help encourage young people to pick up a book by sparking an interest in a particular topic. Nearly 80 per cent of 4,600 young people aged 11 to 16 who played video games read materials … Read more
Calls for children’s TV to turn on the subtitles in a bid to raise literacy levels among youngsters missing school due to coronavirus quarantine The campaign to add subtitles to children’s TV hopes to raise the reading age Research shows 94 per cent of children engage with subtitles if they are shown Presenter Stephen Fry … Read more
Reading a good book is the best way of boosting literacy — but magazines and comics don’t help, study shows Researchers examined the reading habits of 40,000 young students in Spain They also looked at their test results and levels of parental engagement Reading books daily raised results — as much as three months’ more schooling Yet the … Read more