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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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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 into diversity in children’s literature shows that a third of children don’t see themselves in books they readView details about Diversity and children and young people’s reading in 2020 -
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In celebration of 75 years of Pippi Longstocking, we look at some key findings on girls and aspirationsView details about Girls and aspirations -
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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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The National Literacy Trust was commissioned to explore the impact of the Bookmark Reading programme on children’s reading skills and engagement in the 2019/20 academic year.View details about Bookmark Reading impact evaluation 2019/20 -
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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 reading in 2020, in addition to findings from our survey of children and...View details about Children and young people’s reading in 2020 before and during the COVID-19 lockdown -
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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 report outlines findings from our ninth Annual Literacy Survey relating to children and young people’s reading in 2019.View details about Children and young people’s reading in 2019 -
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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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We surveyed 56,906 UK children aged 9 to 18 to look into the link between book ownership, reading skills and reading enjoyment.View details about Gift of reading: children's book ownership in 2019 -
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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.View details about Books Unlocked 2018/19 evaluation -
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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 -
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This report outlines findings from our eighth Annual Literacy Survey relating to children and young people’s reading in 2017/18.View details about Children and young people's reading in 2017/18
