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Support your child with reading

  • Book Trust Reading with your child Sharing a book with a child is fun! It's a time for closeness, laughing and talking together – and it can also give children a flying start in life and help them become lifelong readers.

  • 19 Unusual ways to encourage your child to read Some children can’t wait to get home from school, throw themselves on the sofa and get lost in Hogwarts; others wouldn’t pick up a book unprompted if their games console depended on it. Lucy Dimbylow offers some unusual suggestions to get them reading – and enjoying it. When it comes to reading, children tend to fall into two camps – those who devour books at a rate of knots, and those who wouldn’t voluntarily pick up a book if their life depended on it. Research from the National Literacy Trust confirms that young readers are polarised, with one in six saying they don’t read a single book in a month, while one in 10 reads 10 or more. Common complaints, according to the Trust, are that reading is ‘boring’ or ‘geeky,’ or that they can’t find anything interesting to read – and boys are a particular concern, with fewer boys than girls reading for pleasure.

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