The literacy intervention that jump-starts reading
What is ReadingWise?
ReadingWise offers effective online literacy interventions for primary schools, secondary schools, multi-academy trusts, and local authorities. The programmes cover phonics, decoding, comprehension and vocabulary.
A Department for Education (DfE) RCT study found ReadingWise increased reading ages by 9.5 months in 1 term and ReadingWise pupils improved twice as fast compared to the control group.
From the study:
“Teachers noticed a huge difference in the abilities of the children to engage in whole class work, and saw the improvement in the children as significant.”
How does ReadingWise help?
Using a broad range of innovative techniques, we provide schools with a ground-breaking literacy intervention programme with amazing results.
Using algorithms, online sessions adapt to each learner’s ability, delivering appropriate content to optimise learning and progression through the programme.
A government-funded study found that ReadingWise improves a pupil’s reading age 78% faster than usual classes.
for Primary Schools
Use ReadingWise from Reception through to Year 6 Reading SATS to support whole class reading skills and provide additional development for strugglers including EAL and SEN.
Use ReadingWise in KS3 and KS4 to deliver rapid reading improvement targeting the need. Sessions can take place with the learning support team, in the library or in the classroom. The live progress tracking reports are ideal for Pupil Premium and Ofsted reporting.
"The children are absolutely loving ReadingWise and it's proving to be so beneficial to assess the retention and knowledge of prior taught tier 2 vocabulary. As a result of its multiple exposures, the children are now transferring known vocabulary into written work."
Yasmin Atkinson, Year 4 Teacher at Old Priory Junior Academy, Plymouth, UK
”In only one term, the majority of our children made at least 10 months progress in their reading age- some even more! We have decided to purchase Reading Wise for the whole school and are very excited to see the progress throughout school.”
Hannah Boardman, Irlam Primary School, Salford, UK
"He’s always been reluctant to read aloud and practice reading but has really enjoyed working his way through the programme, at his own speed and with little interference from an adult. His confidence in reading aloud (and so willingness to do it) has definitely increased.”
Caroline Fielding, Charlton Park Academy / CENMAC, London
“That is 15 months progress in 4 academic months !! We are amazed at this and feel it is credit to the program and the systems we have developed as a result of our work with ReadingWise.”
Nicola Parker, Deputy Head, Billing Brook Special School
”ReadingWise Zip is a godsend for our reception learners.”
"Amazing results from just 6 weeks on the ReadingWise Zip Programme. My pupil’s confidence has improved greatly, as has his reading age. He has moved from a reading age of 6.11 to 8.1 in just 6 weeks. We are all absolutely delighted with the results! Thank you ReadingWise!"
Mrs D. Brown, Teacher of Additional Support for Learning (ASL) & Nurture, Hillpark Secondary School, Glasgow
"I decided to carry out assessments just before we stopped for Summer to measure impact. I was delighted with the results, with some children seeing an increase of up to 20 months on their SWST scores. Others, while still below their chronological age, had made good progress in closing the gap."
Lesley McGlashan, Depute Headteacher, Gavinburn Primary School, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
“One of my pupils was gazing at a word and read it perfectly. The word was iridescent. I was really proud of him, as he was of himself. This programme is really engaging some of the pupils who lack confidence in reading. Highly recommended.”
Michael May, Parkhill Secondary School, Glasgow, Scotland
“Attached are our updated reading ages, showing the progress made. We’re really pleased!!! Out of 16 children, only 2 have made less than 6 months progress, with one child showing 2 years 3 months!”
Caroline Farmer, SENCO, The Abbey Primary School, Northampton
“ReadingWise offers us a way to close the gap as pupils move from primary to secondary, and I think crucially within the school, it offers us a way to close the gap as they progress through the year groups.”
Ben Davis, Head, St Ambrose Barlow High School, Salford
ReadingWise Supports Teachers to Improve Literacy in Schools
Our mission is to tackle literacy problems before they have a chance to negatively affect
children’s lives. We support children from year 1 through to year 11 in secondary school. In England in 2023 27% of children left primary school not having met the expected reading level. Over 16.4% of adults
having very low levels of literacy in the UK. Models suggest that this costs the UK economy as much as £80 billion each year.
57% of people in prison are functionally illiterate.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Our mission started in India, resulting in a charity that’s responsible for teaching
2.5 million illiterate women to read. We turned that into an evidence-based online programme for schools and since 2015 we've helped over
300,000 pupils across the UK to improve their reading.
