Establish the link between school and home with this bright journal for lower primary students.

The journal acts as a reading record of the frequency of home reading undertaken by the child over the entire school year. This Take-Home Reading Journal is a carefully researched and well designed book so that teachers no longer have to go to the trouble and expense of photocopying pages for a journal.

The journal is a small 64-page handbook with black text and black line illustrations suitable for colouring in. Amongst other features, it contains information for parents on helping with reading at home; a page per week for take-home reading to be recorded with space for carer, teacher and child comments; and fun activity pages on which children plot the number of books they have read and strive for milestones.

Features & Benefits

• An introduction to how take-home reading works to explain the process to parents.
• Tips for caregivers to help with reading so that parents know how to give the best help.
• Suggestions for great books for kids to read in their own time to help parents encourage children to read in their own time.
• A page per week for take-home reading to be recorded with space for carer, teacher and child comments – plenty of space for communication.
• Fun activity pages on which children plot the number of books they have read and strive for milestones for encouragement and reward.
• Information for parents in other languages (Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese and Indonesian).
• Tips and jokes throughout adding advice and fun.