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This report outlines children and young people's letter writing attitudes in behaviours, and how they were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.View details about Children and young people’s letter writing in 2021 -
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Report on children and young people's engagement with audiobooks based on our 2021 Annual Literacy ReviewView details about The role of audiobooks to engage reluctant readers and underrepresented children and young people -
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Our new report commissioned by Tonies shows how audiobooks can help build reading engagement with younger childrenView details about Playful storytelling: The role of interactive audio in building children’s literacy skills and engagement -
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Our new research finds that an increase in children and young people listening to podcasts during lockdown could have led to wider benefits for their reading engagement, with...View details about Children and young people’s engagement with podcasts before and during lockdown -
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This report evaluates the impact of the National Literacy Trust’s Everyone Ready for School programme in Darlington which ran for two years from 2018 to 2020 with evaluation...View details about SHINE Everyone Ready for School evaluation: Year One -
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This report outlines findings from our tenth Annual Literacy Survey relating to children and young people’s engagement with audiobooks in 2020, alongside findings from our survey of...View details about Children, young people and audiobooks before and during lockdown -
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This report explores the relationship between aspirations, literacy and gender for young people and adults.View details about Aspirations, literacy and gender -
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This literature review provides an overview of research exploring the role of audiobooks in supporting children’s literacy both at home and in the classroom.View details about Audiobooks and literacy: a rapid review of the literature -
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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.View details about Early Words Together for Multilingual Families in Bedford evaluation: 2019 -
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This document reports on the process and impact of the HELLO project in Greater Manchester.View details about HELLO in Greater Manchester: final report 2019 -
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We surveyed 44,097 children aged 8-18 to look into the link between book ownership, literacy engagement and mental wellbeing.View details about Book ownership, literacy engagement and mental wellbeing -
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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.View details about A thing that makes me happy: Children, young people and poetry in 2018 -
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Our evaluation of Early Words Together at Two explores the outcomes of the programme on children, parents, and practitioners.View details about Early Words Together at Two - evaluation report -
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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...View details about Personalised print books and family literacy outcomes: A literature review -
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This report outlines evaluation findings from the Picture the Poet schools programme, which aimed to increase enjoyment of poetry reading, writing and performance.View details about Picture the Poet: school programme evaluation report 2016 -
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This report outlines evaluation findings for the pilot Literacy Leaders project in 2015/16, which showed that the project empowered secondary school students to ...View details about Literacy Leaders pilot evaluation 2016 -
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These external evaluations, carried out by the Centre for Research in Psychology, Behaviour and Achievement at Coventry University, describe the impact of the Helping Early Language...View details about Evaluation of HELLO: A tool to improve communication, language and literacy practice in early years settings -
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Through National Literacy Trust membership (formerly the National Literacy Trust Network) we aim to help practitioners to improve literacy by creating a supportive environment in...View details about National Literacy Trust Network: Feedback and impact 2014-15 -
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The National Literacy Trust’s Books Unlocked programme has supported prisoners and young offenders to engage with literature since 2012. This qualitative evaluation provides an...View details about Books Unlocked Evaluation 2014/15 -
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Two external evaluations of a two-year pilot funded by the Department for Education (DfE), to run Early Words Together in 13 local authorities across England between April 2013 and...View details about Early Words Together evaluations -
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Improving health literacy will empower communities, reduce health inequalities, and reduce pressure on our public services. In this paper we present the case that low literacy...View details about National Literacy Trust Hubs: Understanding the role of literacy in public health (2015)
