TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stannard,John.
AU  - Huxford,Laura
TI  - The literacy game: the story of the national literacy strategy
SN  - 9780415417006
AV  - DUCE LC156.7.S83 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
N1  - includes references and Index
N2  -  The Literacy Game examines the origins, evolution and impact of the NLS, and provides a fully comprehensive contribution to the teaching of literacy and the management of educational change.

This illuminating text:  sets out the political background and context to literacy education in England over a decade from 1996 to 2006
-  explains and appraises the rationale and design underpinning the NLS, thereby rebutting some of the folk-lore that has built up around it
- provides an example of the principles and practices of large-scale system change
-  links the NLS to wider global research on system change and educational reform
-   evaluates the contribution of the NLS in advancing knowledge of the literacy curriculum in English and the development of pedagogy as a whole
- considers the impact and consequences of the NLS on standards of literacy
ER  -