Program details
- Priority area: Communication
- Primary audience: Children, parents/carers
- Delivery mode: Resources (books, kits, manuals)
- Strength of evidence: Level 3 – Promising research evidence
- AEDC sub-domains:
- Language and cognitive development – basic literacy
- Language and cognitive development – interest in literacy/numeracy and memory
- Language and cognitive development – advanced literacy
- Communication skills and general knowledge
- Item cost: Moderate ($200–$2,000 per person/item)
Program description
Services can set up book-gifting programs to promote reading in the home-learning environment. Books should be age-appropriate, and educators and services should encourage parent engagement.
Detailed cost
Costs could range from $200 to $2,000, depending on the type and number of books bought.
Implementation considerations
- Target population: families.
- Staffing: services may need to consider how staff will organise their time to run the program, and the potential cost of extra working hours and backfill.
- Factors to consider: to maximise the benefits to children's development, services are encouraged to support parents/carers to develop effective book-sharing skills. Such support can be built into the program model.
VEYLDF alignment
Item uses these practice principles
Partnerships with families.
Item responds to these sub-outcomes
- Children engage with a range of texts and get meaning from these texts
- Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work
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