About Let's Read

Reading with children from birth to five years

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 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 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

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

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Parenting in Pictures

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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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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 2018

Australia is facing a "national crisis" on literacy with students showing up to kindergarten less prepared than ever before, says the National Early Language and Literacy Coalition.

17 17Th January 2018

Dads who read to their toddler-aged children have four-year-olds with better language and literacy skills, new Melbourne research from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute has found

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