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.

Sports blog posts:

• 16Aug2012
  How to use the new football season to get your kids reading for pleasure

  Blog from children's author Tom Palmer to get you ready for the 2012/2013 Premier League season

  Posted by Jim Sells | 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

• 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

• 07Dec2011
  The Euro 2012 journey begins...

  This week Tom Palmer takes a break from his blog about writing his latest book, to focus on next year’s Euro 2012 football tournament.

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 07Nov2011
  Tom Palmer's writing blog - How I write: how you write, Part Five autumn term

  “If characters were either completely bad or utterly good, they’d be boring. They’d be predictable.”

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 19Sep2011
  Tom Palmer's writing blog - How I write: how you write, Part One autumn term

  Puffin author Tom Palmer is back with his first blog for the new term. This weekly term-time blog focuses on the writing of his new series, The Squad, and talks about all the things it takes to write a book.

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 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

• 18Jul2011
  Tom Palmer's writing blog - How I write: how you write, Part Nine

  Over the next year Puffin author Tom Palmer will do a weekly term-time blog about the writing of his new series, The Squad, talking about all the things it takes to write a book. This is the final blog from Tom until the autumn term.

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 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