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This report explores the link between children and young people’s mental wellbeing and their reading and writing enjoyment, attitudes and behaviours.View details about Mental wellbeing, reading and writing -
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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...View details about NewsWise pilot report 2018 -
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This report evaluates the impact of Mrs Wordsmith, an illustrated, data-driven vocabulary programme for children aged 6-13.View details about Mrs Wordsmith Narrative Journey: pilot evaluation -
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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 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.View details about Children and young people’s writing in 2017/18 -
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This report explores the writing enjoyment, behaviours and attitudes of 8 to 11-year-olds in the UK in the 2017/18 academic year.View details about Writing enjoyment, behaviours and attitudes in 8 to 11-year-olds in 2017-18 -
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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.View details about FA Writing Challenges: Evaluation report 2017 -
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Read more about children’s and young people’s enjoyment of writing in 2016, taken from our seventh annual literacy survey.View details about Writing for Enjoyment and its Link to Wider Writing - Findings from our Annual Literacy Survey 2016 Report -
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A fifth of children and young people said in 2015 that they write in a diary in their free time.View details about Children’s and Young People’s Diary Writing in 2015 -
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Fewer children enjoyed writing or wrote something in their free time in 2015 compared with the previous year. This is based on findings from our annual literacy survey that we...View details about Children's and Young People's Writing in 2015 -
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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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Here we share the impact of the Oxfordshire Gaining Momentum (OGM) project, where we saw positive teacher and student results.View details about Oxfordshire Gaining Momentum impact evaluation report 2016 -
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Do children in 2016 still send postcards when they go on holiday? Who is most likely to do so and what, if any, are the relationships between writing postcards and writing in general?View details about Children and Young People Writing Postcards in 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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Findings based on responses from 24,972 8 to 16-year-olds who participated in the National Literacy Trust’s annual literacy survey in November / December 2015.View details about Children’s and Young People’s Reading and Writing of Comedy in 2015 -
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More children enjoy reading, read daily and think positively about reading in Bradford in 2015 than in 2014.View details about Children and Young People's Literacy in Bradford 2015 -
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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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Children and young people enjoy writing significantly less than reading in 2014. Compared with daily reading, daily writing levels have also remained static over the...View details about Children's and Young People's Writing in 2014 -
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Reading enjoyment, frequency and attitudes have increased in Peterborough between 2014 and 2015 as have levels of writing enjoyment, confidence and attitudes.View details about Children and Young People's Literacy in Peterborough 2015 -
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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