The three-year, £10m Every Child A Reader programme involved 5,000 children in 31 local authorities in England and is being extended to all primary schools in the country. An evaluation by the Institute of Education found that on average the six-year-olds who took part moved from a reading age of four years ten months to six years seven months after 41 hours of one-to-one tuition over 12 to 20 weeks. The programme,...