Schoolchildren will be encouraged to “have a book on the go” at all times as part of a national competition to improve childhood literacy.
Nick Gibb, the School Minister, said that reading books for just half an hour a day could be worth up to 12 months’ extra schooling by the age of 15.
Today, the Department for Education will unveil plans for a national reading competition for children in the last three years of primary education and the first year of secondary
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