The reading performance 📖📚 of primary school children🧒 in Northern Ireland has been ranked fifth in the world in a major international assessment
BBC News NI education correspondent
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study involved 400,000 children in almost 60 countries.First run in 2001, it uses data from a sample of nine and 10-year-old pupils, their parents, their teachers and head teachers.in previous PIRLS studies.More than 4,000 pupils in 143 primary schools in Northern Ireland took part in PIRLS 2021.However, due to school closures during the pandemic some were tested for their literacy skills in Primary Six and some in Primary Seven.
However, girls in Northern Ireland performed better in reading than boys, a "gender gap" repeated across most countries.Most parents in Northern Ireland, for example, said their child's learning had been "adversely affected" by the pandemic.Although pupils in Northern Ireland were good at reading, they did not all like it "very much"pupils in Northern Ireland were out of school for extended periods in 2020 and early 2021 due to lockdown restrictions.
Fewer than half said they liked what they read in school or that they were given interesting things to read.
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