We want all our children to become confident readers  - a key part of this is by identifying those having difficulty very early on. These children are then provided with sufficient additional support to help them keep up.

This involves:

• Simple but effective continuous assessment, both informal and more formal
• Regular progress reviews for all children
• Methods of informal support understood by all teachers and teaching assistants, and implemented as soon as necessary
• Systems for formal support clearly established and implemented as soon as necessary
• Plans and materials for effective support readily to hand and taught well.
• Targeted and specialist reading interventions for those who need them.