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.

Young People 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 21Jan2011
  Removing Barriers to Literacy

  Ofsted's latest report has highlighted important mechanisms for ensuring success in literacy

  Posted by George Dugdale | 0 Comments

• 21Dec2010
  Fellow charity Booktrust announces funding for all English bookgifting programmes to be cut by 100%

  The National Literacy Trust is very disappointed to hear that central funding for the book gifting initiatives of fellow literacy charity Booktrust has been discontinued.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 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

• 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