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Reluctant reader?
If your child isn’t as interested
as you’d hoped in books, try
not to make an issue of it.
Some are more reluctant than
others but in time they may be
bitten by the reading bug. One
way in which you can try to
stimulate is by reading novelty
books together.
These have something
unusual about them, perhaps
flaps that your child has to
lift to see what’s underneath
or wheels to turn, or tags to
pull. This encourages them
to participate in the story and
therefore helps to attract their
interest.
What a story!
Kim Pickin, director of the
Oxford Story Museum, says
there’s nothing quite like
reading: “Stories help to
develop children’s language
and reasoning, empathy and
imagination. They help children
make sense of the world.
They help them think,
communicate and relate to
others. They are something
different generations can
enjoy together and as a recent
study showed, enjoyment of
reading has a greater impact
on educational attainment
than any other factor, including
parental education and
income”.
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Pack
Age group
Where to get it
Bookstart Baby Pack Up to 12 months Ask your health visitor
Bookstart
36-47 months
Treasure Bag
Booktouch
Ask at your Early Years
setting or library
Up to 4 years For blind or partially
sighted children. Ask
at your Early Years
setting, health visitor
or library
Bookshine
Up to 4 years For hearing impaired
children ask at your
library or health visitor
Bookstar Star
3-5 years For children who
have disabilities that
impact on or delay the
development of their
fine motor skills
Our parents and their children love
reading...
“I read to them while they were
in the womb” “Our whole family
loves to read and is excited about
books. I even started to read to my
three babies when they were still in
the womb! I don’t remember a time
when we haven’t read to our children.
At the moment their favourite books
are Charlie and Lola, The Pirate
Penguins (hilarious) and, of course,
the old traditional fairy stories.
We read at any time, but always at
bedtime – no matter what we are
doing or where we are”.
Lynn Banerji
“Our favourite books are funny
ones” “We adore reading and have
a story most nights and now the
children are reading well, they read to
me sometimes. We have read to our
children since they were tiny and they
love it. They’re book mad! We also
encourage them to read signs, bus
destinations, etc. Our favourite books
are funny ones, such as The Gruffalo
and A Squash and a Squeeze”.
Karen Collins
FURTHER
INFORMATION
Oxfordshire County Council
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/libraries
Oxford Story Museum
www.storymuseum.org.uk
Bookstart
www.bookstart.org.uk
For further information on
BookStart, please email
[email protected]
or tel: 01865 810243.
All reading packs can be requested
through the Bookstart Co-ordinator or
libraries who will forward the request.