Our secondary programmes help students develop their literacy skills to succeed at school and in their future lives.
Words for Work is the National Literacy Trust’s flagship literacy and employability programme.
Literacy for Life helps students develop the literacy skills they need to do well at school and in their future lives.
Lyric Masters uses songwriting to encourage secondary school students to write for pleasure and purpose.
Skills Academy helps Year 7 and 8 students improve their reading, rewarding their progress by teaching them exciting freestyle football tricks, beatbox techniques and breakdance routines.
Young City Poets gives pupils the opportunity to visit famous cultural venues in their city, using the visits to inspire poetry.
Inspire and motivate pupils with our teaching resources to support and improve literacy provision at secondary school.
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A set of posters to help you evaluate your current literacy provision and develop an action plan for moving forward.
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One of our most popular membership resources. A yearly compilation of recent research and policy developments in literacy to support busy practitioners in...
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Use this presentation to support and train subject staff about how to embed grammar teaching across the secondary curriculum.
Develop literacy teaching across the secondary curriculum and get your students writing like experts in their subject
Explore language features of different subjects and develop skills to embed literacy in your teaching
Engage with research and develop sustainable strategies to embed a culture of reading in your school and classroom
We run exciting competitions every term to inspire young people and help improve their literacy.
In this report, we discuss school libraries from the point of view of children and young people. It explores how many children use the school library, why...
We surveyed 44,097 children aged 8-18 to look into the link between book ownership, literacy engagement and mental wellbeing.
This report explores the link between children and young people’s mental wellbeing and their reading and writing enjoyment, attitudes and...