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10May2010Reading Connects West Midlands project - results published!
Interested in developing a whole-school reading culture? Find out how a group of schools in the West Midlands improved their pupils' attitudes to reading.
Posted by Sarah Zoysa
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06May2010Reading Champions research project - results published!
Want to run a Reading Champions project? Read this report to find out about its impact on boys from five schools in Tameside local authority.
Posted by Sarah Zoysa
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05May2010Children encouraged to find their inner ‘wild thing’
The National Literacy Trust has teamed up with the Sunday Express to launch a new and exciting story writing competition for children under 13 to celebrate the DVD release of Where The Wild Things Are.
Posted by Anna Jones
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Download The Dads and Boys Galactic Reading Project - results published!
The aim of this project was to test the effectiveness of a project model, based on the Reading Champions project , which would involve dads in their child's reading.
Posted by Sarah Zoysa
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16Apr2010National Non-Fiction Day to debut on 4 November
The Federation of Children’s Book Groups has announced the launch of an annual National Non-Fiction Day, a day dedicated to the celebration of the best information and narrative non-fiction books for children.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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14Apr2010
New research reveals a third of boys struggle to find books that interest themA new study by the National Literacy Trust* of 17,089 pupils aged from eight to 16 has revealed that almost one-third (32.3%) of boys agree with the statement ‘I can’t find anything to read that interests me’.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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14Apr2010Rubbing Shoulders with WWE Superstars
Winners of the 2010 WrestleMania Reading Challenge competition jet off to Phoenix to attend the Reading Challenge quiz, meet some WWE Superstars and see WrestleMania live.
Posted by Hannah MacLellan
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09Apr2010SATs tests limit children’s education, says teachers' leader
Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, has said national tests for 10 and 11-year-olds, formerly known as SATs, contravene the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Posted by Anna Jones
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07Apr2010Key education reforms lost as Bill pushed through Parliament
The Government has been forced into droping a number of planned reforms to schools in order to secure the passage through Parliament of the Children, Schools and Families Bill.
Posted by George Dugdale
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30Mar2010Reading unpopular pastime for young people, new research reveals
New National Literacy Trust findings from a major study of 17,089 pupils from 112 schools reveal that only half (50.6%) of young people enjoy reading very much or quite a lot.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
