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• Christina Clark and Lizzie Poulton  Book ownership and its relation to enjoyment, attitudes, behaviour and attainment
  18,141 young people aged 8 to 17 participated in our first annual online survey in November/December 2010. It included a question about book ownership, which is the focus of this brief report. 31 May 2011
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• Christina Clark  Boys, Girls and Communication
  In summer 2010 we conducted the first large-scale survey of young people's view on communication skills in the UK. This brief report explores what boys and girls think about communication skills, how confident they are in their skills and how important th 4 May 2011
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• Christina Clark and Jonathan Douglas  Young People's Reading and Writing: An in-depth study focusing on enjoyment, behaviour, attitudes and attainment
  At the end of 2009, over 17,000 pupils took part in our study of children and young people's reading and writing attitudes, behaviours and attainment. You can now read the report on the full range of findings. 7 Apr 2011
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• Christina Clark and Lucy Hawkins  Public Libraries and Literacy
  This paper presents additional information from our 2009 survey. It explores why young people use or do not use their local library and how this relates to their reading behaviour and attitudes more widely. 4 Feb 2011
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• Christina Clark  Linking School Libraries and Literacy
  This paper explores what young people think about school libraries – do they use them? If yes, why? If not, why not? How is school library usage related to reading enjoyment, behaviour, attitudes and attainment? 15 Sep 2010
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• Christina Clark and Lucy Hawkins  Young People’s Reading: The importance of the home environment and family support
  This paper presents findings from our 2009 survey of young people’s reading and writing, with a focus on the resources available at home and how this relates to enjoyment, attitudes and behaviour. 2 Jun 2010
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• Christina Clark and George Dugdale  Young People's Writing: Attitudes, behaviour and the role of technology
  The first significant UK study on the subject of young people's attitudes towards writing, this report outlines the findings from 3001 pupils aged 8-16 from England and Scotland, who completed an online survey in May 2009. 6 Dec 2009
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• Christina Clark, Sarah Osborne and George Dugdale  Reaching Out with Role Models
  Do children and young people have reading role models? If so, do these role models come from their immediate social environment? Or are celebrities also influential? We addressed these questions in a recent survey of 2,176 seven to 15-year-olds. 2 Apr 2009
• National Literacy Trust  What's Hot, What's Not 2009
  The second year of a policy-scoping survey of 35 leading literacy professionals that explored which literacy issues are currently hot or not hot and what 2009 might bring 11 Dec 2008
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• Christina Clark and Sarah Osborne  How Does Age Relate to Young People's Self-Perceptions as Readers
  This short research brief outlines an analysis of our self-perception survey in relation to the differences between primary and secondary pupils. 5 Nov 2008