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.

Libraries blog posts:

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 08Jul2011
  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

• 21Jun2011
  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

• 10Jun2011
  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

• 21Sep2010
  Tom Palmer’s Foul Play blog (Autumn 2010)

  Tom Palmer (author of Puffin’s Foul Play and Football Academy books) will be writing a weekly blog during the time his National Literacy Trust competition is running this autumn. He’ll talk about ideas and schools and books and hopes to hear back from you

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments