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<p>The Government is committed to continuing to raise literacy standards and ensuring
all children can read fluently and with understanding.</p><p>Ofsted’s inspection framework,
published in May 2019, puts a greater focus on how well schools are teaching their
pupils to read: inspectors listen to children reading aloud, watch phonics classes
and check how schools help weaker readers to improve.</p><p>In addition, the Department
have launched a £26.3 million English Hubs Programme. The Department has appointed
34 primary schools across England as English Hubs, who are taking a leading role in
supporting nearly 3000 schools to improve their teaching of reading through systematic
synthetic phonics, early language development, and reading for pleasure.</p><p> </p><p>This
network of schools will work to increase reading standards across the country and
to improve educational outcomes for the most disadvantaged children, particularly
in underperforming schools.</p>
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