Research reports

This report presents findings from a survey exploring young people’s literacy and critical literacy attitudes and behaviours when navigating online environments.

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...

An examination of writing enjoyment, behaviours and linguistic identity among multilingual learners.

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...

This report outlines children and young people's letter writing attitudes in behaviours, and how they were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

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.

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...

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 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...

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 writing in 2020, alongside findings from our survey of children and young...

This report evaluates the impact of our Small Talk project in Peterborough and Swindon in 2019.

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

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,...

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.

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,...