World Book Day

Thursady 1st March is World Book Day, we will be celebrating at nursery by reading stories all day and wearing our pjyamas. We are also inviting family members to nursery to read with our children in our specially designed comfy book zone.

The benefits of reading together:

Reigniting a love of sharing stories to promote wellbeing for everyone
Reading to your child on a daily basis throughout childhood is one of the most important factors
in raising a reader for life, and creating a family reading habit enriches child-parent bonds.

Why is it important for parents & carers to SHARE STORIES with children?

• Parents reading to children stimulates independent
reading for pleasure.
• Reading, especially at bedtime, provides quality
moments for both parent and child.
• For children, being read to is fun, deeply reassuring
and calming.
• For parents, reading to a child is a bonding and affirming
experience.

• A supportive home environment is important for the
development of reading enjoyment and the development
of positive attitudes towards reading. One element of a
supportive home environment is shared reading
(or reading aloud).
• Regardless of a family’s income, children whose parents
read to them when they were just starting school develop
a greater sense of enjoyment of reading than those whose
parents did not read to them or read to them infrequently.

The benefits of READING FOR PLEASURE

Creating a love of reading for pleasure in children is critical. Enjoyment, creativity, imagination, greater self-esteem, empathy, relaxation, escapism and improved communication skills are well-known benefits of reading. And for adults, it can lead to a reduction in dementia and depression symptoms.

Reading engagement and reading for pleasure lead to a range of social, personal and intellectual outcomes. These include enjoyment, social and cultural capital, social interaction, knowledge, creativity, empathy, selfexpression and understanding of self and others.

Reading for pleasure is positively linked with the following literacy-related benefits:
• reading attainment and writing ability
for reading
• text comprehension and grammar
• breadth of vocabulary
• positive reading attitudes, which are linked
to achievement in reading
• greater self-confidence as a reader

Reading for enjoyment has also been found to have an impact on how well children and young people perform at school in general:
• Children who read for enjoyment are likely to
do significantly better at school than their
peers
• Reading for enjoyment has been linked to
other learning outcomes, such as a higher
performance in maths and science.