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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 -
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Based on a survey of 219 UK teachers, this report indicates that the majority of teachers believe that technology can have a positive impact on children’s literacy learning.View details about Teachers’ use of technology to support literacy in 2018 -
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In this report, we discuss school libraries from the point of view of children and young people. We explore how many children use school libraries, why they do or do not use them,...View details about School libraries: Why children and young people use them or not, their literacy engagement and mental wellbeing -
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To celebrate Blue Peter's 60th birthday, we explored children and young people’s letter writing in 2017/18. We looked at how many children and young people write letters in...View details about Children and young people’s letter writing in 2017/18 -
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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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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