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About Let's Read: Reading with children from birth to five years

Let's Read is an exciting initiative to promote reading with young children from birth to five years. Let's Read aims to give children the skills they will need to learn to read when they start school.
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Families: Reading is a vital part of development

Reading is a really important part of your child's development. Let's Read supports families to share words, rhymes, songs, books and stories with their children anywhere, anytime.
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Communities: Let's Read in communities

Let's Read uses a community approach to promote the importance of early literacy. Communities are using Let’s Read to support parents and families to read to their children from birth to five years.
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Professionals: Promoting reading with children

Let's Read offers training and resources for community professionals on early literacy, and ways to support parents to read with their kids.
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Training and Development

Parenting in Pictures

Illustrated guides to encourage families to read with children from birth developed

eLearning course

The Let's Read eLearning course for professionals will support you to foster emergent literacy with children - from babies to pre-school. Enrol today.

Centre-wide eLearning package

Special Let's Read centre-wide professional development offer available for a limited time only to early childhood education and care services!

Enhanced centre-wide package

Enjoy all features of the Let's Read centre-wide package plus mentoring support from the Let’s Read team. Available from July 2014 - stay tuned.

Let's Read video

Sharing stories from birth gives children a great start to life. Take a look at the Let's Read video.

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Let's Read Community Program

Find a Let's Read community program

Find out which communities across Australia are using Let’s Read to support parents and families to read with their young children.

Become a Let's Read community

The Let’s Read program is designed to be delivered in and supported by the community. Any community can get involved. Find out how.

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Latest News

31 31St January 2017

Professor Frank Oberklaid's opinion piece in Melbourne's Herald Sun talks about the importance - and joy - of reading with children. Frank is the director of the Centre for Community Child Health, and one of Let's Read's founders.

19 19Th December 2016

Season's greetings from Let's Read

22 22Nd February 2016

Nominations are now open for Speech Pathology Australia's Book of the Year in the Let's Read 0-3 category

31 31St January 2016

Raise a Reader! Reading with children is a national focus this week.

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About Let's Read

Reading with children from birth to five years

Families

Reading is a vital part of development

Communities

Let's Read in communities

Professionals

Promoting reading with children