Top Tips

• Praise your child for their reading efforts, make it clear that it's alright to make mistakes.
• Suggest your older children read with the younger members of the family. Older brothers and sisters can be great reading role models.
• Encourage children to read and improvise aloud to their peers or their teddy bears - reading aloud boosts confidence.
• Let children show off their reading collections to friends and guests.
• Set the example. If your children see you reading the newspaper or a recipe, they will copy you.

• Most primary schoolchildren say they read every day or once/twice a week and almost half believe they are reading enough.
• Just half of parents say their children are read to every day, while one in 10 admit to skipping pages to get to the end of a book.
• 80 per cent of primary schoolchildren say their mother taught them to read. Three-quarters of them say their mothers are the most encouraging when it comes to reading.
• Children who come from homes that read show higher levels of reading knowledge and skills when they start at nursery.
• Adults with high literacy levels are more likely to vote and have an interest in politics.

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