Research reports

In 2019, with support from McDonald’s, we developed a version of our Annual Literacy Survey for younger children aged 5 to 8 to gain an insight into their reading and writing...

This report evaluates the impact of the National Literacy Trust’s Early Words Together programme in Glasgow, which ran from 2017 to 2019.

The report summarises the evaluation of the Words for Work: Women in Leadership programme in the 2018/19 academic year.

This report looks at the fourth year of the poetry programme and its impact.

This report evaluates the Champions for Children professional development programme, which was delivered to early years settings in the Ipswich Opportunity Area in the 2018/19...

An evaluation of the first year of NewsWise – a free, cross-curricular news literacy programme for 9- to 11-year-olds across the UK.

This report uses data from our 2019 Annual Literacy Survey and the Great School Library Campaign to determine how many schools in the UK have had a writer visit in the last year,...

This report outlines findings from our eighth Annual Literacy Survey relating to children and young people’s reading in 2017/18.

Using data from our 2019 Annual Literacy Survey of 56,905 children and young people aged 9 to 18 in the UK, this report suggests that offering children and young people the...

Based on a survey of 219 UK teachers, this report indicates that the majority of teachers believe that technology can have a positive impact on children’s literacy learning.

This report brings together three broad areas of education – reading, financial capability and general academic motivation – to understand how they are related.

In this report, we discuss school libraries from the point of view of children and young people. It explores how many children use the school library, why they do or do not use it,...

We surveyed 44,097 children aged 8-18 to look into the link between book ownership, literacy engagement and mental wellbeing.

To celebrate Blue Peter's 60th birthday, we explored children and young people’s letter writing in 2017/18. We looked at how many children and young people write letters in...

To support National Poetry Day on 4 October 2018, we were commissioned to conduct the first ever national survey of children and young people’s views on poetry in England.

This report explores the link between children and young people’s mental wellbeing and their reading and writing enjoyment, attitudes and behaviours.

The NewsWise programme was developed as a collaborative partnership between Google, The Guardian Foundation, the National Literacy Trust and the PSHE Association. This report covers...

This report evaluates the impact of Mrs Wordsmith, an illustrated, data-driven vocabulary programme for children aged 6-13.

The 2017 evaluation of our Books Unlocked programme, which promotes reading for pleasure in prisons, supported by the Man Booker Prize Foundation.

The survey looked at the reading habits of over 4,000 primary school children in 2018

Our evaluation of Early Words Together at Two explores the outcomes of the programme on children, parents, and practitioners.