Article History
Accepted: 5 August 2022
First Online: 9 September 2022
Declarations
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: There are no potential financial or non-financial conflicts of interest within this research. The authors have no affiliation with any school involved in this research or Headsprout Early Reading, the intervention used with pupils.
: Consent forms were sought for all participants: (1) School principals signed a consent form for their school to be involved. (2) Parents of all participants signed a consent form allowing their child to participate in the research. (3) Participants who were randomly allocated to the control group were given access to the intervention in the school year following the research free of charge.
: Child were given an easy read outline of the research, told what was involved and given the chance to decline to be involved at the outset, or at any point of the research.