Parenting Workshop - Reading Ready

If your child is Kindy or Pre-Primary this year, Joondalup Libraries would like to invite you to a free workshop on how children learn to read. The workshop will give parents insight into what children need to know to read a word, and how to supplement their learning at home through a new library resource – the Reading Ready Pack. At the end of the workshop, participants can borrow the Pack which has been created in consultation with literacy experts from the Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation.

The workshop will cover:

• Information on the phonological awareness and phonic skills children need as they learn to read.


• Guidance on how help your child decode and sound out the words in their reading books.


• Activities and games you can play with your child to develop their phonological awareness and phonics skills


• Advice on choosing appropriate books for your child to practice with


• A tour of the collection of Beginner Reader books available


• An introduction to the Reading Ready Pack – a new loanable resource that will reinforce all the skills learnt in the workshop.

Free workshop. Bookings are essential.

Further workshop dates are planned for: Wednesday 31 July and Wednesday 16 October 2024.

This Project has been supported by funding provided by the State Government of Western Australia, through the State Library’s Better Beginnings program.