From April, the remaining 51 local authorities will join the Communication, Language and Literacy Development programme set up to implement the recommendations of Sir Jim Rose on early years reading. Already 100 council areas are already taking part.
The £9m funding means that every area will have a specialist advisor training and supporting early years practitioners and primary school teachers in phonics.
Children's Secretary Ed Balls said: "We have now invested over £20m in implementing Sir Jim's recommendations. I am pleased that from this year every local authority will be running this highly successful programme."
In a letter to Balls, Rose said that "more schools are teaching reading well and taking a robust approach to teaching high quality phonic work systematically", though he added that weaknesses remain in some schools.
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