In terms of the proportion of pupils reaching the highest ability levels in primary reading, Northern Ireland was even more successful, ranked third place in the world.
The "health week" sessions will be run by Reading Community Learning Centre, Berkshire West Primary Care Trust and Reading Borough Council.
Back in India when I was making the leap from kindergarten to first grade, it was The Times of India and other newspapers that became my primary sources for reading, grammar, comprehension and general knowledge.
He was subsequently commissioned to investigate the island's primary schools and found reading ability in decline.
Improving the teaching of reading in primary schools and raising behaviour standards would help improve the situation, he said.
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International research tends to find that by the time British children leave primary school they are reading well by international standards, but read less often for fun than those elsewhere.
The Northern Ireland Audit Office has examined levels of attainment in maths, reading and writing at primary and secondary schools in Northern Ireland.
In the OECD's annual study of educational performance, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), girls score better in reading in all countries even at primary level, and much better by the time they are 15.
The OCR, meanwhile, is setting up a Language Ladder, starting at primary school, to assess children's skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking.
In contrast to secondary school, primary school children were found to be choosing books which had a reading age above their own.
In Worldreader's first test, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development at six schools in Ghana starting in 2010, the group found that primary-school students who got Kindles increased their performance on standardized reading tests from about 13% to 16%.
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The IEA is probably best known for its Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), an international large-scale assessment of learning outcomes (ILSA) for primary school learners in science and mathematics, as well as for PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study).
Another legacy of primary education's origins is the relatively low emphasis given to the spoken language, compared to reading and writing.
My understanding, again, based entirely on reading your work or watching your work, was that that was supposed to be a non-event primary because one of the contestants was born there and his father was governor.
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