Enjoy and Share Books Together

• Reading together gives your child a great start to their education.

• Books are fun and help your child learn.

• Stories build your child’s memory, imagination and understanding.

• By sharing books you will help your child’s language, listening and looking skills.  

• Together you discover how books work.  

Top Ten Tips

1. Choose a quiet time

2. Make reading fun

3. Be positive

4. Have regular reading times - little and often

5. Choose books together

6. Talk about the books

7. Use the pictures to tell the story

8. Use rhyme and repetition

9. Be flexible - it’s your story

10. Praise your child's reading