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• Christina Clark, Lizzie Poulton and Emily McCoy  Literacy: A route of addressing child poverty?
  This brief summary of the research literature provides the evidence base for literacy to be a priority within child poverty planning. It makes the case for a focus on home learning and parental aspirations in order to address low literacy. 11 Oct 2011
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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
• Christina Clark, Sarah Osborne and Rodie Akerman  Young People's Self-Perceptions as Readers
  A survey of pupils at 29 primary and secondary schools that explores why some pupils see themselves as readers and others do not. It investigates the family, peer and school influences, and explores the consequences of such self-perceptions 4 Jan 2008
• Christina Clark, Stephen Torsi and Julia Strong  Young People and Reading
  This is our first survey into the reading habits and attitudes of young people, which is based on over 1,500 pupils from six schools who participated in a survey in spring 2005, as part of our Reading Champions initiative. 10 Aug 2005
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• Clare Bolton and Christina Clark  Parents' Views on Literacy Development - A brief poll
  A survey we commissioned in February 2012 revealed that a third of parents don’t realise they have the most important influence on their child’s language and literacy development. 28 Feb 2012
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• Deeqa Jama and George Dugdale  Literacy: State of the Nation
  Drawing on existing published statistics, Literacy: State of the Nation provides a coherent picture of literacy levels in the UK today. Updated: 10 January 2012 17 Jan 2012
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• Emily McCoy  Local authorities improving life chances: A review of a new approach to raising literacy levels
  Read the final report of our Partners in Literacy pilot, which outlines a new approach to raising literacy levels. 31 May 2011
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• George Dugdale and Christina Clark  Literacy Changes Lives: An advocacy resource
  This document pulls together existing research about the impact of literacy on five areas in a person's life: economic well-being, aspirations, family life, health and civic/cultural engagement. 2 Sep 2008
• Jennifer Cole, Christina Clark and Irene Picton  London Literacy Champions evaluation report 2012
  The National Literacy Trust’s Literacy Champions programme empowers volunteers to support families to engage with their children’s early literacy development. This report explores the findings of the first year of the programme in London. 4 Jul 2012
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• Jonathan Rooke  Transforming Writing: Interim Evaluation Report
  This is the interim evaluation report of the Transforming Writing project, a two-year project that is researching how to improve children’s writing skills through applying effective formative assessment to the teaching of writing. 11 Jan 2013
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