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Read our report that finds children and young people who sit down to eat dinner and talk with their family are more confident communicators than those who do not. ...View details about Talk at Mealtime -
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Read our reports on youth literacy and employability. In 2013, the National Literacy Trust and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Literacy held a joint commission...View details about Youth literacy and employability 2013 -
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This report includes information on how often children read in their free time, what types of formats they read outside class, and what they thought about reading in 2012View details about Children’s and Young People’s Reading in 2012 -
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Transforming Writing was a two-year action research project, sponsored by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, which developed a model for the teaching and learning of...View details about Transforming Writing: Final evaluation report -
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Read about our survey that found a third of parents do not realise they have the most important influence on their child’s language and literacy development.View details about Parents' Views on Literacy Development in 2012 -
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This report includes how often children engaged in writing, what types of formats they wrote outside class, and what they thought about various aspects of writing in 2011.View details about Children and Young People’s Writing in 2011 -
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Findings from the National Literacy Trust’s 2012 Annual Literacy Survey on reading enjoyment, reading behaviour outside class and reading attitudes.View details about Accelerated Reader and Young People's Reading in 2012 -
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This research assesses the current situation regarding looked-after children and literacy, what interventions are already out there and what we could learn form previous projects.View details about Looked-after Children and Literacy 2012 -
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In this review Dr. Cathy Hamer discusses early language development and external factors that impact on language development, such as the home learning environment...View details about Parent-Child Communication is Important from Birth: A NCT/NLT research overview (2012) -
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This research highlights how children and young people are reading less as their lives get more crowded.View details about Children's and Young People's Reading Today -
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Read about the number of books young people read in a month and how this links with other reading variables, such as reading enjoyment, attitudes towards reading, reading frequency...View details about Is Four the Magic Number? Number of books read in a month and young people’s wider reading behaviour -
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We explore how often children engaged in writing, what types of formats they wrote outside class, and what they thought about various aspects of writing in 2010.View details about Children and Young People’s Writing in 2010: Setting the baseline -
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This paper sets out evidence for the impact of parental engagement in home learning and the significance of attitudes, aspirations and literacy development.View details about Literacy: A route of addressing child poverty? (2011) -
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Discover how much children and young people enjoyed reading in 2010, how often they read in their free time, what types of formats they read outside class, and what...View details about Children’s and Young People’s Reading in 2010: Setting the baseline -
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We found that reading enjoyment is a prominent variable that influences reading attainment indirectly as well as directly.View details about Mapping the interrelationships of reading enjoyment, attitudes, behaviour and attainment (2011) -
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Read about book ownership in 2010, with 1 in 3 children and young people saying that they don’t have a book of their own at home.View details about The Gift of Reading in 2011: Children and young people’s access to books and attitudes towards reading -
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Read our study that shows how book ownership is not only associated with attainment but is also related more broadly to literacy and education, from reading enjoyment...View details about Book ownership and its relation to reading enjoyment, attitudes, behaviour and attainment -
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Read about why young people use or do not use their local library and how this relates to their reading behaviour and attitudes more widely.View details about Public Libraries and Reading: Young people’s reading habits and attitudes to public libraries, and an exploration of the relationship between public library use and school attainment -
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Read our review that shows how critical parents and carers are to their children’s language skills and the vital role of the home learning environment and early...View details about The importance of families and the home environment 2011: A research review -
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This report focuses on the potential differences between boys and girls in terms of their views of communication skills, their confidence in using them and the importance they place...View details about Boys, Girls and Communication: Their views, confidence and why these skills matter (2011) -
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This report shows that what parents say, and what they do, can have a considerable impact on children’s and young people’s reading enjoyment, confidence and...View details about Family Matters: The importance of family support for young people's reading in 2011
