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he aim of the Reading Together Day is to bring families, friends, schools and wider communities together - starting conversations, sharing stories, making connections, celebrating reading and having fun. People of all ages are invited to take part in sharing the love of reading for pleasure, to help build skills, increase confidence, support educational attainment and improve wellbeing.
From 8am
Download our flier of top tips for encouraging reading at home across all ages.
Watch our ‘Top 5 Tips’ video by Alec Williams about how to increase reading at home.
Take part in a survey so we can find out more about the things you like, struggle with, family favourites and more! It’s short, but will give us powerful insight into how we can help.
Download our 'Sporting Reads resource' - full of sporting books to keep you reading until the Olympics!
From noon
We will be launching two videos which will be available for one day only of SLA staff, supporters and branch committee reading from two books. They are: Anna Gain and the Same Sixty Seconds by Guy Bass; and Toad Attack by Patrice Lawrence – both funny and really engaging.
Smriti Hall talks about her picturebooks and the importance of building bridges in her video
For one day only watch Barbara Band's webinar on 'Representation for All: diverse books for children'.
Download two booklists to keep you Reading Together. One is called “All Kinds of Families” which focuses on different families in literature and “Read Together” which are some of our favourite books which work with different ages – so if you’ve got children of different ages there are books which will work well for family reading - from 3pm.
https://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/reading-together-day-schedule---highlights-announced.html