Ten minutes of reading per day can significantly improve children's life chances. The document advocates for dedicating ten minutes of each class from grades 1 through 4 to reading, which amounts to forty minutes of reading per week. It notes that one in five children from low-income families leave primary school unable to read well. Simply having silent reading time is not enough - students should also read out loud occasionally and write short responses, like book tweets, to engage more with the texts. Providing time, choice, and a love of reading are what can help make children readers.

1. Ten Minutes
Can Change
Everything

2. What can you do in Ten
Minutes?
The time to write down learning
objectives…
Half time during the football
Waiting for your dinner
Waiting for school internet to work

3. Save the Children: Read On, Get
On (2014)
‘One in five children from families living in poverty
leave primary school unable to read well.’
‘Being a good reader is crucial for every child.
Children first learn to read; then they read to learn’
The Matthew Effect
Ten minutes reading every day can
SIGINIFICANTLY change the life chances of
children

4. Ten Minutes in My Class
Start every class with ten minutes of
reading
EVERY CLASS FROM S1 to S4
Forty minutes a week that I can
guarantee them

5. Responses to Reading?
Silent Reading on its own won’t make a reader
Listen to them reading for a short period, check
for fluency
Get them to write in dialogue journals
Never ask them to write a book review ever
again. NEVER. Book tweets will do.

7. What makes a reader?
Time
Choice
Love