Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour), on Tuesday, 3 September 2019, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 13 members in total.

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CHILDREN READING FOR PLEASURE

That this House recognises the importance of reading for pleasure as the most powerful agent in improving a child’s educational attainment and life chances; notes that children who read for pleasure daily or nearly every day are a year ahead in reading performance versus those who never do; further notes that 10 to 16 year olds make four times as much progress in vocabulary, maths and spelling if they read for pleasure than if their parents have a degree; and calls on the Education Secretary to change the curriculum to uncouple reading for pleasure from lessons and to enable teachers to include non-tested story time as an intrinsic part of every school day.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2687 

Session

2017-19

Other sponsors

Jim Cunningham

Jim Shannon

Chris Stephens

Gareth Snell

Lloyd Russell-Moyle

Subjects

Children Reading Literacy

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk