Research reports

We surveyed 56,906 UK children aged 9 to 18 to look into the link between book ownership, reading skills and reading enjoyment.

Since 2012, Books Unlocked has supported people in prisons and young offender institutions to read for enjoyment, to read more often, and to engage with literature.

This report evaluates the impact of the pilot Read for Good Stories in Schools programme on reading engagement during the 2018/19 academic year.

This report evaluates the impact of the National Literacy Trust’s Early Words Together programme for Multilingual Families in Bedford, which ran from 2018 to 2019.

The report explores how parents and children engage with news, based on a survey of 1,000 UK parents.

This report evaluates the impact of the TutorMate pilot programme on Year 1 pupils’ reading skills and reading enjoyment during the 2018/19 academic year.

This document reports on the process and impact of the HELLO project in Greater Manchester.

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...