Tips to encourage children to read more

•Ask your child to read a book to you.

•Play a board game together.

•Take your child to get their own library card.

•Read newspaper comic strips or comic books.

•Ask kids to write a short story and read it out loud.

•Read and prepare a recipe together.

•Make bedtime stories a nightly routine.

•Play word games like reading tongue twisters, doing crossword searches or unscrambling words.

•Take a book with you wherever you go, so you can read together at any opportunity.

•Keep a book on your child’s nightstand, so they are prompted to read if they wake up early.