Children with dyslexia will receive intensive one-to-one lessons from specialist teachers as part of an overhaul of primary education, the Government announced yesterday.

Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, set out plans for a pilot scheme to train teachers how to identify pupils with dyslexia. Mr Balls asked Sir Jim Rose, the former Ofsted director, to include education for dyslexic children in his wider review of primary schooling in England, which is already under way.

He said that Sir Jim would recommend how to establish a pilot scheme in which children with dyslexia are given extra help with learning to read or “one-to-one tuition from specialist dyslexia teachers”.

Mr Balls said: “I understand the distress and frustration that many parents of a dyslexic child feel so keenly. Often they have endured years of struggle trying to get extra help to overcome their child’s difficulties with reading and writing.

“So we are redoubling our efforts to get these children the help they deserve. The fact is that in too many parts of the country, parents and children are still not getting the help they need.”

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