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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 09May2012
  Creating independent readers

  In a guest blog, literacy expert Prue Goodwin examines the process of creating independent readers, and the role of guided reading.

  Posted by Guest blogger | 1 Comment

• 17Apr2012
  What will the commission on boys' reading find?

  Fiona Lewis, our Head of Communications, explains why we are running a commission on boys' reading and discusses what it might find.

  Posted by Fiona Lewis | 1 Comment

• 16Apr2012
  Refreshing reading this summer!

  Our primary adviser Judy Clark blogs on the teaching of reading in the context of recent Government policy and encourages us all to take a fresh look at approaches in our schools.

  Posted by Judy Clark | 0 Comments

• 06Mar2012
  Changing lives through literacy in India and the UK

  Our Deputy Director Abigail Moss and Project Manager Irene Picton led a delegation of literacy professionals on an exchange visit to Delhi as part of the our involvement in the British Council’s Active Citizens initiative.

  Posted by Irene Picton | 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

• 06Feb2012
  Literacy in unexpected places

  Our Director Jonathan Douglas explains why literacy should be found in the most unexpected places from football grounds to fast food restaurants.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments