Did you know that it is National Read a Book Day on September 6? This is obviously a good thing. Anything to promote reading, particularly among young people, has to be a positive.
We know that improving reading remains a key priority in all of our schools with increasing numbers of teenagers reading below their chorological age and unable to access the texts across the wide spectrum of curriculum areas they are studying (GL Assessment, 2021).
There is, though, some hopeful news. A National Literacy Trust review (Clark & Picton, 2020) has found positive evidence that young people enjoyed reading during the first Covid-19 lockdown last spring.
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