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Suggested Readings

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Raising Readers: Helping Your Child to Literacy

This book contains useful and specific advice for parents on how children develop literacy skills, focusing primarily on the role of the parent in the reading process.

The Reading Solution: Making Your Child a Reader for Life

This book, written especially for parents, discusses reading at each stage in a child's development - from infancy to adulthood. It also looks at different types of readers from reluctant to gifted. The author suggests ways for parents to encourage their children to read and recommends appropriate books for each stage in a child's reading development. Contains many tips and ideas for parents who want to help their children start reading and keep them reading.

Reading Together

A guide from Frontier College about the joy of reading and the ways families and communities can help children to become enthusiastic readers. provides excellent suggestions on how to start a Reading Circle and includes activities and tips for sharing reading in the home.

Un, deux, trois, quatre, les touts-petits découvrent le livre

Sylvie Gamache has prepared instructions for 12 activities that can be done with children of all ages to encourage them to explore and use books. Many of the activities are accompanied by a resource list of suggested books from Quebec which can be used along with the activities.

In addition, the National Literacy Secretariat has established a Literacy Resource Centre in their departmental library. This resource centre maintains an extensive collection of documentation and information on literacy generated throughout the world. You may refer to this collection by contacting the National Literacy Secretariat, Human Resources Development Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1K5.