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Reading With Your Children

A nightly story that survives busy evenings, library cards and a home shelf that works, the skills to help a beginner reader, and ways to keep older children and teenagers reading for pleasure.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Reading With Your Children, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

👨‍👩‍👧 Family & Parenting

Reading With Your Children

Building a reading habit with children through bedtime stories, library visits, reading lists and encouraging independent readers.

  1. Family reading habits snapshot
  2. Library cards for every child and adult
  3. Bedtime story routine that fits your evenings
  4. Home bookshelf sort at child height
  5. Reading nook in a corner of the house
  6. Understanding your child's reading stage
  7. Shared reading rota between the adults
  8. Book sourcing plan on a modest budget
  9. Running to-read list for each child
  10. Nightly story time habit
  11. Saturday library trip and returns routine
  12. Ten minutes a day with the school reading book
  13. Sunday family reading half hour
  14. Monthly shelf rotation and weeding
  15. Books finished log for each child
  16. Audiobooks for car trips and quiet time
  17. Termly reading chat with the class teacher
  18. Book-giving list for birthdays and festivals
  19. Phonics basics for parents
  20. Prompting a beginner reader without taking over
  21. Reading aloud with expression and pace
  22. Dialogic reading with pre-schoolers
  23. Comprehension questions beyond did you like it
  24. Choosing books that match age and interest
  25. Using stories to talk about hard things
  26. Rhyme, poetry and songs out loud
  27. Choosing an e-reader or reading device for a child
  28. Digital library and audiobook app set-up
  29. Comics and graphic novels as real reading
  30. Deciding on reading rewards and charts
  31. Moving from picture books to chapter books
  32. Ending the one-more-book bedtime negotiation
  33. Widening whose stories are on the bookshelf
  34. Book day costume and school events
  35. Library summer reading challenge
  36. Author visit or children's book festival day
  37. Children's book swap afternoon with friends
  38. Reading pack for a long trip or holiday
  39. Reading with a baby in the first year
  40. Toddler books, rhymes and repetition
  41. Winning back a reluctant reader aged 7 to 11
  42. Extra help at home for a child who finds reading hard
  43. Reading in two languages at home
  44. Story time across two homes
  45. Recorded stories for nights away from home
  46. Story time with siblings of different ages
  47. Keeping a teenager reading
  48. Long read-aloud novels for older children
  49. Parent and child book club
  50. Volunteering as a school reading helper

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Family reading habits snapshot

Before buying books or setting rules, spend one week noticing how reading actually happens in your home: who reads to whom, on which nights, for how long, and what gets skipped. Most parents overestimate story time by a night or two a week, and a short honest record shows whether the gap is time, energy, the books on hand or a child who resists.

First tasks

  • Start a note with columns for night, reader, book and minutes
  • Fill in the note each evening for seven days
  • Ask each child which books they love and which they avoid
  • Choose the one change you will try first and tell the other adults

Library cards for every child and adult

Public libraries are the cheapest way to keep a steady supply of new books, and children's cards usually carry no late fees or much lower ones. Getting every member of the family a card, learning the branch's loan limits and opening hours, and installing its app turns the library from an occasional outing into the family's main book source.

First tasks

  • Check your library's website for what to bring to join
  • Visit the branch with the children and sign everyone up
  • Install the library app and add every card to it
  • Write down loan limits, loan length and the children's session times

Bedtime story routine that fits your evenings

A story that depends on a calm, unhurried evening gets dropped on exactly the nights a child needs it most. Setting a fixed place in the bedtime sequence, a realistic length such as fifteen minutes and a short-story fallback for late nights makes the story the part of the evening that survives.

First tasks

  • Write out tonight's bedtime steps in order and mark the story slot
  • Agree a usual story length and a five-minute fallback
  • Put three short books or a poetry collection by each bed
  • Review after two weeks which nights the story was dropped and why

Make it yours.

Install Reading With Your Children, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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