Collaborative Practice - Save The Children: Research

The initial idea is to create a a pack which would encourage children to read as well as encouraging fathers to read to them. As I don't have a child I have never had the struggle of getting them to read because of this the best place to start seems to be looking up tips on how to get children to read. Below are a few suggestions that may inspire an idea.

• Use car time to talk with your children. There's no phone or television to interfere. No one can get up and leave. And kids know they really have your ear.

• Try relaxing your family's bedtime rules once a week on the weekends. Let your children know that they can stay up as late as they want, as long as they are reading in bed.

• Help your child start a home library; paperback books are fine. Encourage your child to swap books with friends. Check used book stores. Give books as gifts.

• Want your children to be good readers? Let them see you read.

• Try holding D-E-A-R times at your house. "DEAR" stands for "Drop Everything and Read." During DEAR time, everyone in the family sits down for some uninterrupted reading time.

• With young children, try reading to them during bath time.

• Use the "Rule of Thumb" to see if a book is on your children's reading level: Have them read a page of the book aloud. Have them hold up one finger for each word they don't know. If they hold up four fingers and a thumb before the end of the page, the book is probably too hard for them to read alone. But it might be a great book to read aloud.

Reading this has been useful as it has sparked a few ideas that could develop. The idea of  the child starting their own library could be interesting as it gives them responsibility whilst still being fun.