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The 2025 findings show that a sizeable proportion of children and young people choose to read or write poetry in their free time, underlining its lasting relevance in their lives.View details about Children and young people's engagement with poetry in 2025 -
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Findings suggest that when approached within contexts that foster creativity, self-expression, reflection and choice, poetry supports wellbeing.View details about The Role of Poetry in Supporting Wellbeing: Children and Young People’s Perspectives -
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These reports share findings on young people and teachers' use of generative AI to support literacy in 2025.View details about Young people and teachers’ use of generative AI to support literacy in 2025 -
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This report summarises the evaluation of the National Literacy Trust's place-based approach to embedding and boosting the "Better Health Start for Life" campaign and...View details about A National Literacy Trust approach to boost the "Better Health Start for Life" campaign -
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This report summarises findings from 17 interviews with parents talking about shared parent-child engagement in early learning. A thematic analysis revealed factors posing...View details about Parents' support for children's early literacy in 2025 - Insights from interviews with parents -
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This short report summarises the findings of two broader external evaluation reports looking at the impact of First Words Together, a targeted family learning programme created to...View details about First Words Together - Summary of External Evaluations 2021-2024 -
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First Words Together (FWT) is a targeted family learning programme, created by the National Literacy Trust to support early communication for children under the age of two.View details about Evaluation of First Words Together in Birmingham, the Black Country and North East -
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This report builds on our previous research exploring children and young people’s writing engagement, focusing on writing in free time in early 2025.View details about Children and young people's writing in 2025 -
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This report outlines findings from our 2025 Annual Literacy Survey, when children and young people's reading enjoyment and frequency were at an all-time low.View details about Children and young people's reading in 2025 -
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Evaluation of the Empower programme supporting media literacy in girls and young women in Alternative ProvisionView details about Evaluation of Empower -
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This report revisits and updates what we know about fathers’ engagement in children’s early language and literacy.View details about Fathers’ Engagement in Young Children’s Literacy in 2024 -
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This evaluation report draws from 450 primary schools participating in the Libraries for Primaries programme in 2023-24.View details about Libraries for Primaries 2023/24 Evaluation -
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This report outlines findings on children and young people's attitudes and behaviours around listening to audiobooks and podcasts.View details about Children and young people’s listening in 2024 -
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This report uses data from our Annual Literacy Survey to explore literacy engagement levels in children and young people taking part in our work in communities facing high economic...View details about The impact of our work in communities: Data from the Annual Literacy Survey -
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Based on data from our 2024 Annual Literacy Survey, this report tracks book ownership in children and young people in the UK.View details about Book ownership in 2024 -
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Changing the Story Reading Programme was developed by the National Literacy Trust in partnership with Hachette UK. Read our latest report to discover findings from the delivery in...View details about Changing the Story Reading Programme: Final evaluation -
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Words Rising is a project delivered by the National Literacy Trust in partnership with Anawim Women’s Centre. This report presents insight from 107 participants and 13 authors who...View details about Words Rising Evaluation -
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This report outlines findings from our 2024 Annual Literacy Survey, when the percentage of children and young people who told us that they enjoyed reading, and read daily, in their...View details about Children and young people's reading in 2024 -
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An evaluation of the NewsWise family workshops supporting news literacy in children and families in Birmingham and the West Midlands.View details about Evaluation of NewsWise family workshops: Media literacy in community settings -
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This report explores the findings of a survey conducted with 2,021 parents of children from birth to age five about the home learning environmentView details about Parents' support for young children's literacy at home in 2024
