Literacy news
Literacy news covers the latest news from the media and other sources, as well as updates on NLT activity. The most recent headlines are listed below and you can browse archived news by moving through the page numbers at the bottom of the page.
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Children news stories:
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28Jul2011Headteacher claims some children don’t know their own name on BBC Radio 4 Today programme
On the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme today (28 July 2011) Neil Wilson, executive headteacher of a group of schools in South Manchester said that some children entering the education system in the UK do not even know their own name.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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27Jul2011Booker Judge expresses concern for young readers in age of information
Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5 and Man Booker Prize Judge, said she was concerned that school pupils were missing out on the pleasure of reading books as technology increasingly dominates their lives.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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25Jul2011Working mothers 'do no harm to children's behaviour'
A study has confounded the widespread view that if mothers work during the early years of a child’s life, it may have detrimental effects on their social and emotional behaviour.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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20Jul2011Haven to give away nearly 50,000 books
Haven Holidays has teamed up with the National Literacy Trust's Words for Life campaign to give away nearly 50,000 books - to children on their 35 family holiday parks.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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11Jul2011Poor pupils in struggling schools 'lag further behind'
New research from the Sutton Trust has revealed that the gap between the poorest pupils and their better-off peers in struggling schools in England is wider than in other schools.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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07Jul2011Schools 'pushed into phonics by financial incentives'
Schools are being given financial incentives by the government to use certain phonics materials to teach reading, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Education reveals.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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06Jul2011
Get children reading and raise funds for the National Literacy Trust with the new Where’s Wally?® fundraising pack for schoolsIndependent charity the National Literacy Trust and Where’s Wally?® have teamed up to launch a brand new fundraising pack for schools. The pack aims to encourage children to have fun, read more and help the National Literacy Trust.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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06Jul2011
Love to read with the Premier League: Be one of 1,000 schools and libraries to take part free of chargeAre your pupils more interested in football than reading? The National Literacy Trust is launching the 2011/12 Premier League Reading Stars initiative to turn football fans into reading fans.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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28Jun2011Download your free Where's Wally? schools fundraising pack
Join Where's Wally? in supporting the National Literacy Trust and get children and young people reading more with our Where’s Wally? fundraising pack.
Posted by Sam Brookes
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28Jun2011New research - Poorer children’s educational attainment: how important are attitudes and behaviour?
This research from Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlights the crucial role of parental and child attitudes in closing the gap educational attainment between richer and poorer pupils.
Posted by Emily McCoy
