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.

• 03May2011
  Tom Palmer's writing blog - How I write: How you write. Part One

  A National Literacy Trust blog by the Puffin author, Tom Palmer. It is aimed at schools. Over the next year Tom 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.

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• 12Oct2010
  Tom Palmer's Foul Play blog, part 3.

  Each week Tom updates us with football literacy activities that he is discovering, and creating, around the country. This week he uncovers four schools fighting it out to read the most football books.

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• 28Sep2010
  Tom Palmer's Foul Play blog, part 2.

  Each week Tom updates us with football literacy activities that he is discovering, and creating, around the country. This week he goes back to Basildon.

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• 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

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• 28Jun2010
  Tom Palmer's World Cup journey 11

  Tom discusses how Sunday's result will affect his writing. And who he will be supporting now...

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• 25Jun2010
  Tom Palmer's World Cup journey 10

  Tom reports on how a school in Portsmouth is supplementing ideas from the World Cup Toolkit

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• 22Jun2010
  Tom Palmer's World Cup journey 9

  Tom goes to Fratton Park, home of Portsmouth FC (which has a brilliant education programme led by the brilliant Clare Martin). Here he meets a school where half of Key Stage 2 are reading his daily story!

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• 21Jun2010
  Tom Palmer's World Cup journey 8

  Tom revs up for visiting 3,000 children this week and tells us about his Father's Day visit to Bowness. And worries about how England's poor form (current poor form) might affect his story.

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• 16Jun2010
  Tom Palmer's World Cup journey 6

  Tom tells visits his group of young writers from Essex and tells us about a school using the PLRS Challenge in the World Cup.

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• 16Jun2010
  Tom Palmer's World Cup journey 7

  Tom tells us how a school in Portsmouth is using local celebrities and World Cup ideas to enthuse its pupils.

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