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The reading fluency of White working class pupils

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By Paul Charman Verified, Dave Thomson
| FFT Education Datalab
The Inquiry into White working class educational outcomes published its report earlier in the week, making a recommendation that improving reading fluency should be a central priority for improving outcomes for the group. This makes some sense. A certain level of reading fluency is necessary to access the secondary curriculum. But what do we know about how reading fluency develops during primary education for this group of pupils?
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Be yourself, everyone else is taken

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By Paul Charman Verified
| Waikato Business News Verified
Complex hydraulics and electronics developed by a Hamilton company are used around the world to move houses and buildings by truck and trailer units, writes Paul Charman. Robin Ratcliffe watches the television series Moving Houses with more interest than most. It was he and his engineers who developed the specialised trailer technology needed to shift houses and buildings by trucks over some of the most challenging landscapes in the world.
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Measuring reading fluency during primary education

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By Eliza Hilton, Paul Charman Verified, Natasha Plaister, Dave Thomson
| FFT Education Datalab
Over the last few years, colleagues at FFT have been developing the Reading Assessment Programme (RAP), a simple online assessment tool to assess pupils on GPC[1] accuracy, decoding accuracy and reading fluency. Between September 2022 and August 2024, a total of 110,000 pupils from almost 700 schools have completed 340,000+ assessments.
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