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intervention. Introduce pupils to reading interventions and
the library.

Next steps
Gather reading age data and strengthen the reading
culture

Collect and share reading age data and ask teachers to
adapt teaching to make it more bespoke for individual
pupils.

Include reading ages in reports from Year 6 onwards,
allowing parents and carers to be involved in the reading
journey.

Review the curriculum to ensure pupils are being taught to
manage the ‘Five Plagues of Reading’ (Lemov, Driggs, &
Woolway, 2016).

Develop a reading for pleasure culture across primary and
secondary – see Open University Reading for Pleasure (The
Open University, 2022). For example, set up a cross-phase
staff book club and a staff summer reading challenge,
and undertake pupil voice to identify when and why
reading enthusiasm fades and what pupils think would
help.

Recruit / upskill a school librarian and engage their support
with a range of cross-phase reading events.

Advanced steps
ReÞ ne teaching and provision

Plan a coherent reading diet which promotes inter-
disciplinary reading.

Provide ongoing training for teachers on reading questions
and reading strategies, assessing texts to use in class, how
best to model and scaffolding tasks.

Code library books to match reading ages to allow the
pupils to choose books suitable to their reading ability.

Research and implement the right reading interventions
for the right pupils. Consider Just Reading, University of
Sussex (Westbrook, Sutherland, Oakhill, & Sullivan, 2019),
The Better Reading Partnership and Herts for Learning’s
Reading Fluency Project.

Give your librarian reading age information for all pupils so
that that they are able to assist and recommend books.

Continue to monitor provision and progress, listening to
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