Case studies: Greater London

• Cooper's Lane Primary School, Lewisham - encouraging dads to act as male role models within the school, including as readers (from the Reading Champions pages)
• The Dulwich Reading Mentor Project, London - sixth formers mentor Year 5 boys
• Henry Fawcett Primary School, Lambeth - using a variety of initiatives to support reading
• Sure Start Kennington, Lambeth, London - partnership with libraries brings book characters to life
• Sure Start Myatt's Field Angell Town, Lambeth, London - literacy development together with health workers, libraries and a hostel for teenage mums
• Independent Reading Mentor Project, Lambeth, London - Year 9 and 10 students increase their skills through mentoring Year 1 children
• Lambeth libraries, London - a Love Libraries event with children's writers and illustrators
• The Question Game - a game used in family learning sessions to help parents and children talk about books
• Year 7 transition at Loxford School, London Borough of Redbridge - a summer reading promotion for pupils about to start Year 7 and their parents
• Laurence and Jessica, CLPE, London Borough of Southwark - how a Centre for Literacy in Primary Education course helped one mother and daughter
• Southwark libraries - partnerships in action - special cards for foster carers and home-educated children, plus a partnership with Sure Start children's centres
• The Café Reading Project, St Stephen's C of E Primary School, Lambeth - families choose books from the library and share them in the local café
• 'Reading and Writing at Home' for all, West Acton, London - a programme for parents whose first language is not English, supporting them in how and what to read with children
• First Steps children's centre and 'A Winter's Tale', Westminster - involving parents in a winter-themed reading and writing project