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:

• 07Jul2010
  A book of their own: how owning books affects children's literacy

  Lizzie Poulton, Project Manager, National Young Readers' Programme, tells us about recent research on book ownership and the difference books in the home can make.

  Posted by Lizzie Poulton | 2 Comments

• 15Jun2010
  Kids distracted by the World Cup? Time to join them says Jim Sells

  Jim tells us how to turn a love of football into a love of reading.

  Posted by Jim Sells | 1 Comment

• 01Mar2010
  In an age of testing, assessment and accountability how can we, as a nation, make literacy fun, inspiring and irresistible to everyone?

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 2 Comments

• 23Feb2010
  To blog or not to blog: that isn't the question

  Our new report on writing, published at the beginning of this month, has caused something of a stir in the media and online. Fittingly, research which suggests that new technology may have educational benefits for young people’s writing has been examined

  Posted by Christina Clark | 0 Comments

• 23Nov2009
  Ofsted’s annual report and literacy

  This week Christine Gilbert, Ofsted’s Chief Inspector, launched the inspectorate’s annual report by identifying its theme.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 19Oct2009
  A 'Nudge' for literacy?

  Thaler and Sunstein are experts in behavioural science. They are also the authors of a book called Nudge which recommends techniques to help us improve the choices we make with benefits to our health, wealth and happiness.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 24Aug2009
  School libraries - a child's right

  The Campaign for the Book is arguing strongly that school libraries should be statutory. On the face of it this is such a necessary requirement for teaching and learning that it feels like legislating for the obvious.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 27Apr2009
  A new curriculum, a new definition for literacy?

  Sir Jim Rose’s Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum sets the scene for primary education in England from 2011. He has conceived the curriculum as a dynamic concept, delivering both a love of learning for its own sake and the understanding, knowled

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 1 Comment

• 21Apr2008
  Communication is crucial: the Bercow Review of speech, language and communication needs services for children

  The NLT believes that full literacy is the ability to speak, listen, read and write in order to fulfil an individual’s and, ultimately, society’s potential.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments