Key points regarding the resources are listed below, and the use of these is explained in the Reading Together™: Workshop Leader's Handbook.
The Reading Together™ resources can be ordered here.
This handbook is intended for use by teachers and other literacy educators who are interested in implementing the Reading Together programme for groups of parents whose children are at primary or junior secondary school levels. The handbook was updated in 2012.
This booklet for parents contains the suggestions for helping with reading at home.
Although the booklet is frequently used by teachers and parents in New Zealand as a ‘stand-alone’ resource, the suggestions have been shown to be much more meaningful and helpful to parents and children when they are discussed, demonstrated and practised during the workshop programme described in the Workshop Leader’s Handbook.
Brock: A ‘reading book’ for adults is used for one of the activities within the workshop programme. Brock has a special alphabet which has been invented to help adults gain some understanding of what children experience as they are learning to read.
The set contains eight sheets of jokes and riddles. Two sheets are issued at the end of each of the four workshops and parents are encouraged to read these with their children at home.
Parents and children enjoy reading the jokes and riddles together, and this helps to emphasise that reading can be shared and can be fun – it is not just oral reading of graded texts.
The three ‘traffic light’ bookmarks indicate to parents how to help their children with books brought home from school i.e. whether the book should be ‘read with’ the child (orange), or ‘read to’ the child (red), or whether it is a book which the child can read independently (green).