Parents and Guardians Reading Advice and Resources
This page has loads of advice and resources to help your children with their reading and book selection choices. About also helping you with your own book selection choices as well.
Benefits of Reading
Why you should read with your child for 10 minutes every day?
Reading can help you to:
Help you share worries with others.
Help you relax and de-stress.
Make you smile!
It helps you get to sleep.
It gives you a quiet time to refresh your mind.
It helps you understand other people better.
It helps you face and understand difficult times.
It helps you know more about the world including facts.
It improves imagination/creativity.
It exercises lots of areas of the brain.
It helps you succeed better at school subjects.
It raises your confidence and self-esteem.
It helps you work through your own worries or problems.
It lets you feel emotions you want to feel.
It raises your spirits by making you laugh.
You can take risks and face adventures in a book while staying safe.
It makes your life feel better.
It makes you more open-minded and tolerant.
It lets you escape into another world for a while.
The following TedX videos by Luke Bakic and Alisha Rajpal talks about the benefits, power and importance of reading to them:
Parent and Guardians Reading Advice and Resources Sites
British Dyslexia Association Has a advice page with tips and advice to help your child with their reading if they have Dyslexia.
Books for Keeps is the UK’s leading, independent children’s book magazine. IThere are over 12,500 reviews on their website and more than 2,000 articles including interviews with the top children’s authors and illustrators.
Booktrust - Is a national literacy charity which offers advice to parents/guardians to help you support your child with their reading and finding their next book choice.
LoveReading4Kids is the biggest and best recommendation site for children's books: reading, reviewing and recommending so that the children in your life find their next favourite book.
National Literacy Trust is another literacy charity organisation. They have created an area on their site called Words for Life that provides milestones, tips, fun resources and advice to help parents support their children’s literacy development.
Project Gutenberg is a free eBook library containing classic book literature.
ReadingZone.com is dedicated to helping young people, parents & adults and teachers to find out about children’s books. Each area on the site provides information about new and classic titles with expert advice to help you find the best children’s books available.
Toppsta is a book recommendation website. Children can create their own profile on Toppsta and write book reviews on the book they have read. In addition to this they can also enter free book giveaway.
Children and Adult Suggested Reading List Sites
The following websites links will give you some reading suggestions for all age groups:
100 of The Best Science Fiction Novels of All Times
BBC 100 Novels That Shaped Our World List
Best 100 Children Picture Books to Read with Children Under 5 Years Old
Booktrust 100 Best Children Books From The Last 100 Years
GQ The 110 Best Books To Read Right Now List
Penguin Books 100 Must-Read Classic Books List
The Guardian 100 Best Adult Non-Fiction Books of All Times List
The Guardian 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
The Sunday Times Top 100 Crime and Thriller Books Since 1945 List
The Telegraph 100 Greatest Novels of All Time List