We're calling on all early years practitioners to help us reinforce the following messages to families during the National Year of Reading:
- Sharing reading is enjoyable and rewarding, and a great way for families to be together.
- Reading is convenient and can be free if families join their local library.
- Reading with your child is like a fun, private education - increasing their vocabulary, encouraging confident speaking, and making it easier for children to learn to read independently.
- Parents and carers don't have to be Stephen Fry to tell stories well - their audience already loves them!
- Parents' interest in all or any form of reading is the best possible tool to support the development of reading in children. Their enthusiasm is vital, so sharing a story that interests them, or reading from a book, newspaper or magazine they love is all good news.
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