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A report by the National Foundation for Educational Research.
This report presents an evaluation of the impact of the Letterbox Club initiative in Wales. The report incorporates data collected during the Pilot Study undertaken across 2009-2010, along with further data collected in 2011. Authors Rose Griffiths and Dr Chris Comber.
A report from the Centre for Education and Inclusion Research at Sheffield Hallam University and the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, commissioned by Booktrust to look at the Bookbuzz programme 2012-13.
This document is for health visitors and nursery nurses who gift Bookstart packs. Discover evidence that shows why sharing books is so important for all children from birth and the ongoing benefits that this can bring.
Between December 2011 and March 2012 the Collaboration Sheffield initiative1 was commissioned to undertake an evaluation of the Booked Up programme on behalf of Booktrust. The aims of the evaluation were to:
1. Examine how Booked Up engaged with Year 7 children and how this could be improved to help maximise the impact of the programme;
2. Consider how this varied for less confident readers, those who struggle, children who can read but are reluctant to engage with books and children who are confident readers2; and
3. Explore what improvements could be made to Booked Up and/or the communication about the programme to increase engagement with the process and resources by both children and school staff.
The National Centre for Research in Children's Literature at the University of Surrey Roehampton were commissioned to evaluate Bookstart between 1999 to 2001, funded by Sainsbury's. The research used qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate the programme.
This report is the final stage in the longitudinal study carried out by Barrie Wade and Maggie Moore into the impacts of Bookstart. It compares the performance in Key Stage 1 SATS of children that received Bookstart with those who did not. The study shows that Bookstart children are significantly ahead on various assessment measures.
In 1997, Barrie Wade and Maggie Moore studied a sample of babies five years after they had received their Bookstart packs. They then evaluated the development of Bookstart in its first five years.
Barrie Wade and Maggie Moore were commission to evaluate the impact of Bookstart when it was first piloted in Birmingham in 1992. The report found that Bookstart was warmly welcomed by professionals and parents and it promoted awareness of reading and sharing of books in the range of families who received the pack.
New research published today (9 November 2011) reveals that 98% of primary school teachers are concerned that not enough reading for pleasure is taking place in some of the nation’s homes and that this is having an impact on the time pupils spend reading and talking about books in school. Booktime gives 1.38 million books to reception-aged children in 2011.
This report presents the findings of the Letterbox Club Pilot Study undertaken in Northern Ireland, which involved a total of 159 children, with their families, during 2009. Funded by Fostering Network Northern Ireland, through the Fostering Achievement scheme.
Bookstart's focus on targeting babies and toddlers is informed by recent developments in developmental psychology and early literacy studies.
Like other early interventions, the benefits of Bookstart are likely to be realised through the lifetime of participants. Cost benefit analysis demonstrates the likelihood that Bookstart is particularly cost effective.
This page provides a review of Bookstart’s impacts on book use, library use, reading, language acquisition and literacy.
Bookbite is a magazine and website aimed at encouraging people over 60-years-old to enjoy and discover the pleasures of the written word. The Bookbite team has carried out extensive evaluation of the project and its impact on readers. In all, the research findings have been very positive.
Bookbite is a magazine and website aimed at encouraging people over 60-years-old to enjoy and discover the pleasures of the written word. The vast majority of respondents in this study responded extremely warmly to Bookbite and feel that it is largely hitting precisely the right note. When pressed into saying what they would like from future editions of the magazine, the most common reply was ‘more of the same’.
Published September 2011, this report assesses the impact of the pilot programme for children in secondary school Year 7/8, which ran from July-December 2010. Sixty children aged 11-13 were enrolled across 11 local authorities in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Funded by the Siobhan Dowd Trust www.siobhandowdtrust.com
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