Learning to read comes before reading to learn and, ideally, all students who arrive in year 7 would be able to stretch their reading and take it to the next level. But the reality is that some do not.
Students can slip through the tightly cast net during their formative years and there are a multitude of reasons why – long-term absence, a new arrival into the country, or due to a range of SEND.
In the inner city school where I work, more than 60% of our year 7s in 2023 arrived with a reading age under-11 – some were as low as 5.
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