Parents/carers can:

• Listen to Year 7 read for 20 minutes a night.
• Read aloud to your child. This could be sharing a news article/blogpost, or a fiction or non-fiction book.
• Give time and space for your child to read their book independently for 30 minutes per night.
• Offers access to a wide variety of reading materials, from magazines to autobiographies to fiction books. These can also be sourced for free from a public library.
• Access eBooks and audiobooks via the Solihull public library service: https://www.solihull.gov.uk/libraries/ebooks-and-eaudiobooks
• Turn subtitles on whilst watching television, streaming services or YouTube.
• Model reading yourself as much as possible at home, or take a book with you when out and about.

Students to:

• Have a reading book with them at all times in school.
• Read aloud for 20 minutes per day.
• Read to yourself/ inwardly for 30 minutes per day.
• Challenge yourselves with reading something different. A new genre, books across periods, books with or without pictures, an author that is new to them, and fiction and non-fiction books.
• Explore a wide variety of reading styles – eBooks, audiobooks, podcasts, paperbacks, hardbacks, interactive choose-your-own-adventure books, video game texts, different font sizes, different colour pages, try the Word Runner function on Amazon Kindle, read aloud to someone (even a pet!), be read aloud to, read in your head, read in a car, read outside, read at home or in school or an after-school club, try reading in the morning versus reading at night. The more you vary your reading style, the easier you will find a style that works for YOU.
• Turn subtitles on whilst watching television, streaming services or YouTube.
• Participate in the Accelerated Reader programme in Years 7 and 8.
• Consider joining in with the library’s co-curricular activities, such as National Reading Champions, the Children’s Book Award or Young Story Curators.