Research reports

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...

Our new research into diversity in children’s literature shows that a third of children don’t see themselves in books they read

In celebration of 75 years of Pippi Longstocking, we look at some key findings on girls and aspirations

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...

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.

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...

This report outlines findings from our survey exploring young people’s literacy-related interactions both within, and in relation to, video games.

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...

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...

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...

This report explores the relationship between aspirations, literacy and gender for young people and adults.

This report outlines findings from our ninth Annual Literacy Survey relating to children and young people’s reading in 2019.

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.

We surveyed 56,906 UK children aged 9 to 18 to look into the link between book ownership, reading skills and reading enjoyment.

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.

This report evaluates the impact of the pilot Read for Good Stories in Schools programme on reading engagement during the 2018/19 academic year.

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.

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,...

This report outlines findings from our eighth Annual Literacy Survey relating to children and young people’s reading in 2017/18.

Using data from our 2019 Annual Literacy Survey of 56,905 children and young people aged 9 to 18 in the UK, this report suggests that offering children and young people the...