Key issues

• National Literacy Strategy 
• Extended schools
• Gender and literacy
• ICT & literacy
• Popular culture and media literacy
• Setting - Does setting and streaming raise achievement? 
• Government/Ofsted - evaluation of the National Literacy Strategy/literacy hour 
• Summaries of evaluations of the literacy hour
• Writing
• Boys, girls and literacy 
• Class size
• Literacy and social inclusion
   

• Reading for purpose and pleasure: An evaluation of the teaching of reading in primary schools (Ofsted, 2004)
• Accelerating Reading and Spelling with Synthetic Phonics: A Five Year Follow Up - summary of findings (March 2003)
• Research on reading and attainment - a summary of Barbara MacGilchrist's  article
• American perspectives on effective literacy programmes - Kent State University
• The findings of the Leverhulme project
• Fathers Involvement: Research findings (Oxford University and ESRC)
• Phonics - Research into the approach that is mandatory in some USA states
• For Blair, 1997 is Year Zero - TES article by Professor Alexander on how the Government has ditched decades of accumulated wisdom about primary teaching (TES, 19 September 2003)
  Professor Alexander's full paper Still no pedagogy? Principle, pragmatism and compliance can be obtained from Sally Roach on saer@cam.ac.uk or 01223 742029.
• " Beyond the frame": exploring children's literacy practices at home (C. Burnett and J. Myers, 2002)
  A summary from the Department for Education and Skills, at
  www. standards.dfes.gov.uk

NLT-led initiatives relating to primary schools:

• Reading Connects
• Reading Is Fundamental, UK
  

General information  

• Literacy Today articles