Creating a life long love of reading for children

CSPV are embarking on a campaign to encourage more fun when reading with children and to engage more parents in reading with their children. In a series of posts in this newsletter and on our social media, we intend to build awareness amongst parents of the importance and benefits of ensuring reading is fun for children and in developing a life long love for reading.

As a child, books provide a sense of wonder, creativity, an opportunity to learn new words, to interact, build vocabulary and to bond together as you share in the excitement of what might happen next, what the story is about and dive into other worlds together.

Reading to our children should be fun. It's a time when we can be a bit goofy, put on funny voices and share in laughter together as you discover the characters, encourage curious questions from your child to build their comprehension and wonderings about the story and its characters.

If you're like me and your children are older but still enjoy reading and you're struggling to find books for their age group, click on the fantastic resource below to subscribe to weekly booklists that are age appropriate and for ideas on what books you might borrow from the library.

The website provides ideas for parents and teachers on creating reading spaces and ideas for encouraging reading for children. 

Most of all we hope you enjoy reading with your kids!