It’s still valuable to read to children even when they’re independent readers: it shows them that books are worth an adult’s attention, and that it can be a fun, shared activity
- Audiobooks are fantastic, especially on car journeys
- Encourage children to join the Summer Reading Challenge or the Winter Reading Challenge at the library
- When you’re reading together, stop on a cliffhanger so that they want to read on! Give them a slightly later bedtime to finish a chapter if they are reading solo
Information about The Summer Reading Challenge, run by The Reading Agency
Monthly Inspiration from BookTrust on what to read for this age group:
How Does It Work?
by Maddie Moate, illustrated by Paul Boston
Children are curious about how things work – and fortunately Maddie Moate is too, which is why she’s written this book packed full of information about how the everyday and not so everyday things around us function.
