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.

DfE 10 top tips for parents to support children to read Follow this advice to help primary-aged children read at home. There’s further resources available online at Online education resources: English resources.

10 Tips to help your child fall jn love with reading Reading can be a great way for children to relax and escape to a different world. Here are 10 ways parents can help build and support a child's love of reading.

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.