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Primary teachers hired to teach Glasgow secondary pupils to read
Teacher Katrina Crickett says intensive reading lessons are vital to ensure children who lack literacy skills do not fall further behind their peers
Primary school teachers have been hired to work in Glasgow's high schools to address the growing number of new starts who are unable to read properly.
The primary teachers run intensive catch-up classes for first-year secondary school pupils without basic literacy skills.
Glasgow's education director, John McGhee, said fixing the problem was a "moral imperative".
Scotland's ranking in the latest Pisa international education study, external did not change significantly between 2022 and 2025 but a long-term decline in reading standards has not been reversed.
There are currently primary-qualified teaching staff working in 14 of Glasgow's 30 secondary schools to improve literacy and numeracy standards.
The majority of children who are getting support as part of the project have English as a first language.
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Katrina Crickett carries out the role at St Andrew's High School and utilises the systematic synthetic phonics method of matching letters and sounds to help pupils, who can be taught to read in a matter of months.
"Some young people when they're coming in, they can't read," she said.