School Readers

Schoolreaders, established in 2013, provide one-to-one reading support for children both at school and in their homes via three different means; face-to-face reading in classrooms, online reading support sessions and through the Schoolreaders Storytime video library. One-to-one reading support with an attentive adult helps children’s reading fluency, comprehension and enjoyment. It is a crucial supplement to classroom teaching for many children and will be vital in helping them catch up on literacy skills lost during school closures. As many as one in four children left primary school in 2019 unable to read well, and this figure will have been made worse by the COVID-19 crisis. These children are at a disadvantage because they are unable to access their secondary education properly and this has lifelong consequences. Schoolreaders’ aim is to make sure that every child can read well by the time they move to secondary school at the age of 11.