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This report evaluates the impact of the fourth year of NewsWise – a free, cross-curricular news literacy programme for 9 to 11-year-olds across the UK.View details about NewsWise evaluation report 2021-22 -
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Report on the benefits of keeping a diary for children and young people, including allowing self-expression, boosting creativity, and supporting mental wellbeing and writing...View details about Children and young people’s diary writing in 2022 -
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This report presents findings from a survey exploring young people’s literacy and critical literacy attitudes and behaviours when navigating online environments.View details about Insights into young people’s literacy, critical digital literacy, online communication and wellbeing -
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This report outlines findings from our 2022 Annual Literacy Survey, exploring children and young people’s writing engagement following the lifting of all lockdown restrictions in...View details about Children and young people’s writing in 2022 -
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An examination of writing enjoyment, behaviours and linguistic identity among multilingual learners.View details about Multilingual young people’s writing in 2021 -
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Evidence from across the sector and submissions from teachers to give an idea of the current situation in primary school libraries; the benefits they bring to pupils and the...View details about The Future of Primary School Libraries -
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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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This report evaluates the impact of the third year of NewsWise – a free, cross-curricular news literacy programme for 9- to 11-year-olds across the UK.View details about NewsWise evaluation report 2020-21 -
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This report outlines findings from our Annual Literacy Survey exploring children and young people’s literacy-related interactions in relation to video games in early 2021.View details about Children and young people’s video game playing and literacy in 2021 -
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This report outlines findings from our 2021 Annual Literacy Survey, alongside children and young people’s perceptions of their writing during the first lockdown and subsequent...View details about Children and young people’s writing in 2021 -
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This report explores the role that digital tools and resources can play in addressing the gender and disadvantage gap in young people’s literacy attitudes and outcomes, combining...View details about Improving the literacy skills of disadvantaged teenage boys through the use of technology -
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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 survey exploring young people’s literacy-related interactions both within, and in relation to, video games.View details about Video game playing and literacy: a survey of young people aged 11 to 16 -
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This paper from the National Literacy Trust and Nottingham Trent University explores how children on free school meals use their school library and how this links to their literacy...View details about Exploring the literacy-related behaviours and feelings of pupils eligible for free school meals in relation to their use of and access to school libraries -
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This report outlines findings from our tenth Annual Literacy Survey relating to children and young people’s writing in 2020, alongside findings from our survey of children and young...View details about Children and young people’s writing during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 -
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This report evaluates the impact of our Small Talk project in Peterborough and Swindon in 2019.View details about Small Talk evaluation 2019 -
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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 report evaluates the impact of the pilot Read for Good Stories in Schools programme on reading engagement during the 2018/19 academic year.View details about Stories in Schools: reading engagement report -
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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 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,...View details about Writer visits and children and young people's literacy engagement
