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.

• 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

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 01Sep2010
  Libraries raise literacy standards and must be funded

  Director Jonathan Douglas looks at the debate around cuts to public library services and argues for the vital role that libraries play in raising literacy levels.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 3 Comments

• 16Aug2010
  The national literacy challenge: our priorities under the Coalition Government

  Director Jonathan Douglas discusses the National Literacy Trust's priorities under the new government in light of the forthcoming Spending Review.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 05Aug2010
  Literacy at a local level: the impact of cuts, restructures and Big Society

  Emily McCoy, Manager of Partners in Literacy, discusses how to ensure that support for literacy is maintained at a local level.

  Posted by Emily McCoy | 4 Comments

• 03Aug2010
  The many uses of voice

  Liz Attenborough, Manager of Talk To Your Baby, discusses the importance of a sometimes uncomfortable activity: singing.

  Posted by Liz Attenborough | 1 Comment

• 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

• 02Jul2010
  With plans for a full spending review underway, how can we campaign to ensure that literacy is a priority?

  Following the budget the Government's attention will now turn towards the autumn spending review. Help us to ensure that literacy is seen as a priority during this time.

  Posted by George Dugdale | 1 Comment

• 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...

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 3 Comments

• 25Jun2010
  Tom Palmer's World Cup journey 10

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

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments

• 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!

  Posted by Tom Palmer | 0 Comments