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Help your children learn to read

Reading at school

Want to find out more about how children learn to read at school?

Learning to read is one of the most important skills children learn when they go to school. This is because reading is an essential skill for life. Reading opens doors to all the other learning we do – in school, in further education and in our adult lives – and helps us perform a range of everyday tasks from shopping, to driving the car, to DIY …

Lots of parents have told us that they would like to know more about what goes on when children are taught to read at school – they feel this would help them to help their children more effectively.

This part of the site provides lots of useful information about how reading is taught in school, what the national requirements are, and how children’s progress is assessed.


 


Remember: If you have a specific question about how your child is being taught, the best person to ask is your child’s class teacher.