Keep up to date with the latest literacy research.
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 outcomes from the pilot phase of 547 pupils across England and Wales in early 2018.
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.
This report compares pupils who participated in Readathon with those who haven't and shows that Readathon is related to various improved reading outcomes.
The final report of the Commission on Fake News and the Teaching of Critical Literacy in Schools.
This report explores how many children and young people enjoy writing, how often they write in their free time, what they think about writing and more.
This report explores the writing enjoyment, behaviours and attitudes of 8 to 11-year-olds in the UK in the 2017/18 academic year.
An evidence review exploring the link between literacy and life expectancy in England through health and socioeconomic factors.
This research review explores redefining and reframing what it means to be a good reader at age 11, looking in particular at cognitive reading skills, affective processes and reading behaviours.
We asked 42,406 children and young people aged eight to 18 about book ownership in our seventh annual literacy survey, which we conducted in November/December 2016. One in 11 children said they do not have a book of their own at home, rising to one in eight children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
This literature review provides a brief overview of research relating to the importance of shared reading in the early years, with a focus on personalised children’s picture books in print format.
This report looks at year two of the poetry programme and the impact it has had.
Read about our FA writing challenges and how they increased participating students’ enthusiasm for writing, motivated them to write and improved their confidence as writers.
Pupils who use Accelerated Reader (AR) enjoy reading, read frequently and think more positively about reading than their peers who do not use AR.
This report outlines findings about children and young people’s reading from our seventh annual literacy survey conducted in November/December 2016 when 42,406 children and young people aged eight to 18 participated in our online survey.
Our review of provision of school libraries, the impact on pupils and the elements that make a good school library.
Fewer children and young people in Manchester say that they enjoy reading compared with their peers nationally and fewer read daily outside class. This is based on a survey of 5,000 pupils from 60 primary and secondary schools in Manchester, who participated in spring 2016.
Read more about children’s and young people’s enjoyment of writing in 2016, taken from our seventh annual literacy survey.
In 2016 we recorded the highest levels of reading enjoyment to date, with nearly 6 in 10 saying that they enjoy reading either very much or quite a lot.