As more depressing statistical data emerge about children who can’t achieve basic standards of literacy, it’s time to provide teachers the tools they require in their fight to help pupils hit their potential.

I’m not a teacher, but I empathise with them. How a teacher’s heart must fall as wave after wave of bad press threatens to engulf the job they feel passionately about, consigning the profession they joined with high expectations of making a difference, to the collective trash can for apparently letting our young students down.

The government’s recent school comparisons show that three-quarters of children in England who make a slow start in the “Three Rs” at junior school fail to catch up by the point they finish.

Teachers then have to suffer the mortification as well meaning charities and govt. initiatives ‘ride to the rescue ‘ to save children by taking matters on themselves. This demoralises the teachers and calls their abilities into question.

As the creator of a company that produces a reading toolkit made by a teacher that consistently brings a disheartened reader to a standard of reading competency that would generally take at least 18 months in class, you’d think we’d be coining it in with such a demand for our services. Sadly this is not the case, and it’s down to a crucial design component that is both the great thing about the scheme and the target of government literacy discrimination.

What’s this critical issue? It does not use the unnatural phonics method mandated by the government, and you pay a price quality when you dare to express doubt in this hallowed area. Week Julia Donaldson, the Gruffalo writer, had the audacity to state that one reading methodology does not suit each kid and found her books excluded from the govt. suggested reading list.

This tide of negative literacy statistics isn’t down to poor teaching. We are being let down by the government’s heavy handedness in freezing out techniques that should be available to teachers. If teachers will join the reading book writers and create the astounding effects that I have witnessed many times, then perhaps the UK government will finally give teachers the credit they deserve.

Reading Revival is a method of teaching children how to [1] learn to read that uses [2] reading games and recognition to encourage fast learning.