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New measurement tracking early literacy progress to launch

A campaign group concerned with early language is to create a new national measurement of children’s reading.

The Read On. Get On. Campaign group, made up of charities and educational organisations, is to create a new measurement of children’s reading that tracks progress in early literacy and language throughout the early years. Its aim is to identify those children who are at risk of poor language and support them in gaining good communication skills.

It is one of a number of measures outlined in the campaign group’s new 10-step strategy to achieving its goal of every child leaving primary school being able to read well by 2025.

The campaign group believes that current measures of children’s reading fail to take into account the whole range of activities that define whether a child is reading wel, including both cognitive and affective processes.

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