Anticipation or Trepidation? Teachers’ Views on the Literacy Hour

This paper considers the criticisms made in the press of the National Literacy Strategy prior to its implementation and compares these to comments made by teachers in a questionnaire distributed in the summer term of 1998. These showed that teachers had both positive and negative views about the NLS, that these views were, on the whole, more positive than we had expected and did not necessarily reflect views as put forward in the press.