Blogs

Our blogs are written by various NLT staff on a wide range of literacy issues. We welcome your ideas and feedback, so please add your comments.

If you have any suggestions for blog topics that you would like to see our staff discuss please email us.

Children blog posts:

• 03Aug2012
  Will the Olympic Games inspire a nation of readers?

  Jonathan Douglas, our Director, explores how the Olympic Games is creating a new cohort of role models and inspiring children to read.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 06Jun2012
  Tom Palmer Euro 2012 blog, part three: Literacy begins at home

  Tom Palmer provides some top tips for using the Euro 2012 tournament as a platform for reading together and talking about reading, for teachers to pass on to parents.

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 25May2012
  Tom Palmer Euro 2012 blog, part two: Confessions of a school-visiting author

  "Reading for Pleasure = when they don’t even think they are reading". Football author Tom Palmer shares his views on reading for pleasure, with particular emphasis on using football to hook pupils in.

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 16May2012
  Help! There’s a boy in my class!

  Jim Sells, our Premier League Reading Stars Project Manager, discusses way to engage boys with reading.

  Posted by Jim Sells | 1 Comment

• 14May2012
  Tom Palmer Euro 2012 blog, part one: Reading Euro 2012

  In the build-up to one of the biggest events on the football calendar, author Tom Palmer reviews the top Euro 2012 magazines to get children reading.

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 21Feb2012
  Celebrating World Book Day

  World Book Day is a great opportunity to stop and celebrate all of the positive things happening in libraries and literacy.

  Posted by Lizzie Poulton | 1 Comment

• 08Nov2011
  New political group to focus on literacy

  The new All Party Parliamentary Group for Literacy will look at issues including boys and literacy and volunteering to support literacy.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 19Sep2011
  A Day in the Life of the Young Readers Programme

  How our Young Readers Programme team spends a typical day.

  Posted by Fiona Lewis | 0 Comments

• 08Sep2011
  Literacy is everybody’s business

  As we examine the factors that contributed to this summer’s riots and seek solutions, literacy support within these communities has perhaps never seemed more urgent.

  Posted by Abigail Moss | 1 Comment

• 22Jul2011
  The Jim & Jack 1 in 6 run blog

  National Literacy Trust employees Jack Sallabank and Jim Sells have decided to run 160 miles, in October, to raise funds for the National Literacy Trust. Each week we will be writing a blog to let people know how our training, fundraising and organisation

  Posted by Jim Sells | 0 Comments