Covid: School readers needed 'more than ever' to aid literacy
BBC News By Alex Pope image copyrightSchoolReaders image captionVolunteer Chris Dowd said he "wasn't sure it was going to work", but children had taken to remote online reading with him A charity that recruits volunteers to listen to pupils read says it is "going to be needed more than ever" when schools fully reopen. Schoolreaders, a Bedford-based literacy organisation, says reading attainment has fallen during the lockdowns. Jane Whitbread, its director, said: "It's almost like we were created for this time; we are needed so much now." The charity had seen a rise in the number of voluntee...
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