Run by the National Literacy Trust (NLT), the initiative is running until International Mother Language Day on February 21 and aims to promote community literacies – with an equal focus on speaking and reading.
It comes after NLT research found that two in five children who speak multiple languages said they want their multilingual skills to be more recognised in school (Teravainen-Goff et al, 2021).
Part of the NLT’s Connecting Stories campaign, Storytelling Month will promote a love of reading and dialects through online scrapbook resources and booklists, which will be available online from early February.
There will also be activities via the NLT’s 14 hubs, which are area-based initiatives that bring together local partners to tackle issues in communities where there are concerns about low levels of literacy.
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