Family Reading Matters is delivered by the
NLT on behalf of the DCSF
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- Home-school reading partnership at Chineham Park, Basingstoke - a whole-school approach including a breakfast club and the school library
- Cooper's Lane Primary School, Lewisham - involving dads (from the Reading Champions pages)
- The Dulwich Reading Mentor Project, London - sixth formers mentor Year 5 boys
- Extra Time gets RaW with the BBC, Liverpool - how Everton FC is promoting storytelling and community cohesion
- Booktime - nationwide book gifting programme for children aged five
- The Federation of Children's Book Groups - examples of activities and events, including those held in schools
- Ferham Primary School, Rotherham - a teddy bears' picnic and story-telling fun for families
- Henry Fawcett Primary School, Lambeth - using a variety of initiatives to support reading
- Family literacy in Hinckley, Leicestershire - a tutor's experience of working with parents
- Family Fun, Knowsley - take-home packs as part of an area-wide Foundation Stage course
- Reading Miles at Kennall Vale Primary School, Cornwall - a motivational scheme to encourage children to read with their families
- The Question Game - a game used in family learning sessions to help parents and children talk about books
- Reading Is Fundamental, UK - an initiative allowing children to choose and keep free books and take part in fun events with their families
- Storytelling workshops as part of Read a Million Words, Bristol - encouraging parents to use story sacks and make up stories
- 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
- Laurence and Jessica, CLPE, London Borough of Southwark - how a Centre for Literacy in Primary Education course helped one mother and daughter
- Internet Rangers at Teyfant Community School, Bristol - children teach their parents about computers
- '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
- Families Together in West Sussex - a home visiting programme that helps parents get involved with their child's reading
- Bedtime stories for all the family, Wirral - an evening session to encourage storytelling at home
- Woodburn Parents' Library, Dalkeith, Midlothian - how parents made books for their children and set up a lending library in the school
More information on primary schools and literacy from the NLT site
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