Guidance

Literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies

A review of catch-up strategies and interventions intended for low-attaining pupils in literacy or numeracy at the end of key stage 2.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 27 November 2012
• Last updated: 8 August 2018
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  1. 8 August 2018

     Updated 'Literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies’ introduction to explain that the costs listed are the costs from running the intervention programmes during the trial. Footnotes added to reiterate this on page 3 and page 14.

  2. 14 November 2017

     Replaced the document 'Literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies' to update links.

  3. 17 October 2017

     Reviewed and updated Literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies' document.

  4. 27 November 2012

     First published.

This publication was withdrawn on 19 February 2021

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Documents

Literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies

Ref: DFE-20010-2017

PDF, 543 KB, 31 pages

Organisations offering research into effective practice in support for literacy and numeracy

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 39.5 KB

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Details

The review intends to support teachers to make evidence-informed decisions. This includes how to support low-attaining year 7 pupils by summarising the evidence on what does and doesn’t work.

This paper also includes a summary of broader principles which have helped the transition of pupils from primary to secondary school.