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How ten weeks transformed children's reading confidence (and their futures)

Dr Marion Long

Published on: 25/07/2025

In just ten weeks, a group of KS2 children made up to two and a half years of progress in reading comprehension — but the biggest change wasn’t in the test scores.

Reading comprehension

How rhythm defines

phonemic awareness

“It’s only an hour that they have with you over the time that you come in over the six weeks and for it to be able to make, for a lot of them, up to a year’s difference in their reading ability is quite amazing really.” Year 3 teacher

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