Literacy for life: evaluating the National Literacy Trust’s bespoke programme for schools

This paper presents an evaluation of “Literacy for Life” (LfL) – a whole-school literacy programme, implemented in five secondary schools England. The aims LfL were to improve attainment and promote positive attitudes reading writing. However, when compared other schools, there is little or no evidence that being school, had any differential benefit pupils’ attainment. In the gap disadvantaged pupils those with SEN grew early years intervention. There also from repeated surveys enjoyment showed improvement. As such, did not achieve its intended objectives. matters because, despite limited favour, continue use it programmes similar it. We argue such as LfL, which are on level, need be based upon evidence-informed approaches.