Launching the home reading initiative earlier this month, its national co-ordinator Lindsey Fraser explained how she had worked on creating the booklet Reading Together by speaking to a number of teachers and nursery nurses to get feedback. She said, 'Their reaction was, "Not another initiative that we have got to do".
'We don't want to add to what they have to do, but support what they are already doing. The aim of the campaign is to get parents sharing books with children from as young as possible. It's not about teaching how to read, it is about giving confidence in how books work, how to turn a page, so that when they are at school they know there is a point to them.'
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