Tag: literacy

  • Joy Through The Letterbox

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    With the decline of personal sent mail, children sadly do not often feel the simple thrill of receiving something through the letterbox. Subscription boxes have reimagined that excitement, transforming it into a regular ritual that blends learning, creativity and anticipation. For parents, they offer something equally valuable: a gentle, ready-made way to encourage reading, spark…

  • The Changing Classroom

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    Education systems are navigating a period of notable change. The digitisation of the past two decades has reshaped classrooms, offering new ways to access information and deliver lessons. At the same time, it has raised questions about how digital tools affect learning, concentration, and development. As schools have rapidly adopted these technologies, there is a…

  • The National Year Of Reading

    Find out about the government’s 12-month initiative to get more young people reading. Despite there being more books, magazines and newspapers, available on more platforms than ever, there’s a fundamental problem with reading – not enough people are doing it. And crucially, not enough young people are doing it. Research by the National Literacy Trust (NLT) has…

  • Why Generation Z Prefers Print Books

    Young People Are Reading More And More Books In Print, Driving Sales And Shaping The Industry In the continued tussle between print books and e-readers, it seems print books are winning, especially in the eyes of the young. A new report by Pew Research has shown that Generation Z (Gen Z) – those born between 1997 and…

  • Penguin’s Book Vending Machine

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    When Did You Last Read A Book On The Train? Imagine sitting in a hushed train carriage where all that can be heard is the sound of the train on the tracks and the occasional rustle of paper as pages are turned. If you have been on a train lately, you will be aware of…

  • Summer School Comic Book Initiative Launched To Help Children Catch Up

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    The National Literacy Trust and sustainable paper brand REY® have announced the delivery of 10,000 free literacy resource packs to Year 6 and Year 7 students across the UK. This forms part of the National Literacy Trust’s summer offer to support pupils as they transition from primary to secondary school. The REY activity packs are…

  • The National Literacy Trust share reading tips for children

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    The National Literacy Trust have created some summer reading tips for families. They teamed up with Puffin to ask children about their reading during lock-down. Here are their 5 top tips to keep your children reading… Make time for reading Children said that time away from school and social activities during lockdown has given them more time to enjoy…

  • 15 tips to get back into reading

    Losing that love for reading can happen to avid and casual readers alike. Fortunately, we have compiled 15 tips to get back into reading. Formulated by book-based Instagrammers, or bookstagrammers for short, they share their top tips to help you rediscover your need to read. A study from the University of Sussex showed that reading…

  • Why digital content could be bad news for the brain?

    A steady diet of digital content is turning us into a world of skim-readers, which is bad news for our brains. Here’s a stat to mull over: the average human mind will consume around 34GB of data every single day. That data comes in the form of TV, music, adverts, videos, emails, websites and apps.…