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Children and young people today are growing up in a globalised world. The rise of digital and social media is transforming their experience of news and demanding them to process information from a wider variety of sources than...

School libraries have the power to positively impact the development of empathy in children, says our Programme Manager Victoria Dilly.School libraries have the power to positively impact the development of empathy in children and young...

Our Sport and Literacy Programme Manager Jim Sells explains how football can motivate children to improve their literacy.Football has always been a big part of my life so I count myself lucky that I’ve been able to combine my love of...

Whether you teach PE, science, history or geography, you will need to get to grips with the literacy requirements of the new GCSE specifications.Whether you teach PE, science, history or geography, you will need to get to grips with the...

Copyright and plagiarism can be difficult concepts for children to get to grips with, but it’s vital that they understand them. Alice Donovan of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) explains why…In this digital age where...

Dermot O’Leary, broadcaster and author of Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape, talks to our Director Jonathan about his books, how he writes, his reading habits as a child and more.Jonathan Douglas: Did you get many books at...

How much could a targeted reading intervention improve attainment? Dr. Janet Vousden from Coventry University explains…Decades of research have revealed the core skills required to become a good reader: decoding the print on the page,...

Business publisher LID Publishing explains how the company will be fulfilling the Business Pledge in 2018Business publisher is one of the new signatories for the 2018 Vision for Literacy Business Pledge. Leading businesses have...

How important are school libraries to children and young people? Victoria Dilly, manager of our Love our Libraries programme, believes they are crucial for children’s social, emotional and academic development.Having been a school...

What contributes to the variation in children’s language development in the early years?By Padraic Monaghan, Professor of Cognition in the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University, co-director of the ESRC International Centre...

Our friends at Dundee Council explain how they use National Literacy Trust membership for every state school in their local authority.Up here in sunny Dundee (that is a fact by the way — we are the sunniest city in Scotland!), all of...

Professor Victoria Leong explains how interactions with parents help babies form these important connections in the brain.If an adult wants to learn a new language, they will need to rely on the attention, concentration and...

National Literacy Trust member Clare Upton explains how she uses her membership.National Literacy Trust member Clare Upton explains how she uses her National Literacy Trust membership to encourage collaboration between school...

At the National Literacy Trust, we have always known that improving children’s literacy improves their life chances. Those who lack vital literacy skills will be held back at every stage of their life — doing worse at school as a...

Personalised book creator Librio explains how the company will be fulfilling the Business Pledge in 2018Publishing company creates highly-illustrated personalised children’s books, and is one of the new signatories for the 2018 Vision...

“As a school it is our responsibility to educate the whole student.”National Literacy Trust member Isabel Eames explains how she uses her National Literacy Trust membership to improve whole-school literacy, and how National Literacy...

One teacher tells us how she’s using her National Literacy Trust membership to drive a whole-school approach to literacy.National Literacy Trust member Sadie Phillips explains how Canary Wharf College are hitting the ground running with...

Across our five Hubs, 100,000 children live below the poverty line.has found that more than half of all children in the UK’s poorest areas are now growing up in poverty. Our National Literacy Trust Hubs Project Manager Alasdair Flint...

63 leading businesses have joined the fight to tackle the UK’s literacy crisis — a crisis which, over the past decade, has seen more than start primary school without the reading, writing and communications skills they need to succeed...

Every year, as parents and educators, we look to Key Stage 2 national curriculum assessment results as a benchmark of how well children are reading as they move from primary to secondary school.However, recent changes in national...

The earlier children develop good reading and writing skills, the better their chances are of doing well at school, getting a skilled job and living a successful life. But with , far too many children are having their futures cut short...