We offer evidence-based resources, research, training, programmes and National Literacy Trust membership to make your literacy provision highly effective.
We provide a range of evidence-based training, interventions, programmes and resources to support teachers and practitioners to enable children to move forward and develop their skills.
Research, insights and policy developments relating to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children's learning, literacy and wellbeing.
We target our work in the communities that need help most, working with local partners to deliver place-based solutions. National Literacy Trust Hubs create long-term change in communities where low levels of literacy are entrenched, intergenerational and seriously impacting on people’s lives.
Parents and the home learning environment have the greatest effect on how a child develops language and literacy skills. Our site Words for Life gives developmental milestones, tips, fun resources and advice to help parents support their children’s literacy development.
We rely on the generous support of individuals, communities and businesses to continue our vital work to transform lives through literacy.
Our policy and campaigning work raises awareness of the importance of literacy to make it a priority for politicians, businesses and parents.
Our research underpins our programmes, campaigns and policy work to improve literacy attitudes, habits and skills across the UK.
Help us ensure 230,000 children do not fall further behind. This is an urgent appeal to support Literacy Recovery of children and young people in our most disadvantaged communities.
Colfe’s School in Greenwich, south east London, has won our National Reading Champions Quiz. The team, comprising of Amabel, Natalie, Leila and Jackson, beat 21 other teams from across the UK to victory in the only national reading quiz which is entirely dedicated to knowledge of fiction books.
Libraries are uniquely placed to help narrow the literacy gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers, which was exacerbated by the pandemic despite the huge achievements of teachers and librarians in supporting pupils through periods of school closures.
Our Miles of Magic Reading Challenge, celebrating 25 years of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, has been a huge success with students across the UK reading more than 2.5 million magical minutes in total!
