Tuesday 23 October 2007
9:00pm
A staggering one in five UK children leave primary school unable to read properly. Last Chance Kids is a three-part documentary series, showing in the Lost for Words season, following one primary school and its dynamic head teacher as they make the decision to eradicate illiteracy. Lynna has gone back to basics, and brought in an expert in synthetic phonics. At the outset, a quarter of the children were totally illiterate and couldn’t score highly enough on tests to be given a reading age. Can Lynna and her team ensure that every single pupil is reading by the end of the year?
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