Reading with Your Child
Advice about reading for parents and carers
You can order a copy of Beginning with Books, a guide to reading with your child created by Scottish Book Trust. Order a copy here.
Scottish Government's home reading initiative, Read Together!, was launched to encourage parents and carers to share books with their children from an early age. The website at the heart of the campaign www.readtogether.co.uk offers a range of information and guidance on reading with children, a selection of practical Bright Ideas for ways in which to incorporate the enjoyment of books into family life, and an age-ranged choice of recommended reading.
The interactive Read Together! CD Rom, now available in every library in Scotland, offers more Bright Ideas and recommended books, together with a word game in which young readers risk being dunked in (virtual) green gunk! All the Read Together! resources have been developed in order to support the work of teachers and librarians in involving parents and carers in their child's literary development. The National Co-ordinators of the Read Together! initiative are Kathryn Ross and Lindsey Fraser and they can be contacted on info@readtogether.co.uk
You can also follow author/illustrator Moira Munro's recommendation. She suggests getting hold of a copy of a book called The reading bug and how to help your child to catch it. Written in a humorous style, the book explains how readers can open the world through a love of books. The author has cut through the jargon and the controversies to reveal the simple truths which should enable every parent to infect their child with the reading bug.
Links about reading for parents and carers
Bookstart
A scheme which arranges for children to receive a special Bookstart bag at their 9-month health check-up
Booktrust
Bringing books and people together (organiser of Bookstart)
Child Literacy
Guidance on how children learn to read and suggestions for ways in which parents and carers can support their child's reading
Children's Books Ireland
Children's Books Ireland is the national children's book organisation of Ireland.
www.childrensbooksireland.com/content/view/94/252
Federation of Children's Book Groups
The umbrella organisation for local groups throughout the UK
Read Together
The Home Reading Initiative from the Scottish Executive to provide help and advice on supporting children's reading at home
Scotland Parent Magazine
A one stop source for all kinds of parenting information. The magazine is available in the Central Belt and the East Coast and or can be found on-line.
Talk to your Baby
Helpful information about the benefits to both parents and children of talking as much as you can with very young children.
www.literacytrust.org.uk/talktoyourbaby
Wordpool
A site which recommends books and offers wide-ranging guidance
