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.

• 31Jan2012
  Ten things Premier League Reading Stars could have done for me

  Tom Palmer did not like books when he was a boy. His mum used football to get him into reading. He is now the author of fourteen children’s football novels for Puffin Books.

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 20Jan2012
  Tom Palmer's writing blog - How I write: how you write, Part Two spring term

  "When a child in a school asks me for advice about what to do to become an author, the first thing I say is "read"...Because reading is the best way to learn how to write."

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 10Jan2012
  New year musings on the new National Curriculum

  Deputy Director, Abigail Moss shares her thoughts on the paper published by the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum Review.

  Posted by Abigail Moss | 0 Comments

• 10Jan2012
  Tom Palmer's writing blog - How I write: how you write, Part One spring term

  Tom blogs about not feeling angry when someone criticises something you’ve done.

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 12Dec2011
  Why you should give the Gift of Reading this Christmas

  Lizzie from our Young Readers Programme explains why you should give the Gift of Reading this Christmas.

  Posted by Lizzie Poulton | 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

• 05Dec2011
  Could do better: latest overview of adult literacy in the UK

  National Literacy Trust Director Jonathan Douglas discusses the findings of the new 2011 Skills for Life Survey and the challenges it presents to the literacy sector.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 1 Comment

• 22Nov2011
  Tom Palmer's writing blog - How I write: how you write, Part Six autumn term

  “I can’t tell you the name of the school in question, because it is probably the first school in the world to set up its own spy ring.”

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 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

• 07Nov2011
  Can we address poverty by focusing on literacy? Frank Field MP thinks so.

  A new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies forecast that by 2013 there will be 3.1 million children in poverty in the UK. Frank Field MP explored the role of low literacy in poverty at our recent conference.

  Posted by Emily McCoy | 0 Comments