» 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.

» 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.