Reading Expert

A lead professional who builds a whole-school approach to reading "should also encourage teachers and parents to work together, with a shared understanding that reading should be for meaning and enjoyment as well as an essential skill." All-parliamentary Group for Education

Target Literacy supports the subject leader/reading expert/reading champion in creating a reading culture and whole school approach which combines both pleasure and achievement for all pupils.

The Government's present focus on systematic synthetic phonics should be embedded within a balanced approach to the teaching of reading.

"The active encouragement of reading for pleasure should be a core part of every child's curriculum entitlement because extensive reading and exposure to a wide range of texts make a huge contribution to students' educational achievement. " All-parliamentary Group for Education