What is it?
- Books bring Forces families closer together through reading.
- Shared reading improves communication & relationships.
- Support during separation, deployment & family challenges.
- Benefits include connection, family time & reading confidence.
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Description
At Reading Force, we are passionate about using books to bring Forces children and families closer together.
Our shared reading initiative encourages families to read, talk and scrapbook about a book, improving communication and enriching relationships with books and each other – one page at a time.
Reading stories to and with children can be one of the nicest parts of family life. And for Forces families, sharing books can be much more – a way of staying connected when separated, giving continuity during deployment and comforting children struggling with a move of home or a parent’s absence.
Families regularly tell us about the many ways Reading Force has helped them in all kinds of situations. We hope you’ll find some of their stories relate to your own circumstances.
How Reading Force can help you & your family:
Stay close during a parent’s deployment
- Keep in touch with grandparents
- Create fun family time
- Keep families overseas in touch with family at home
- Encourage dads to read with their children
- Give divorced or separated parents child focused activity
- Regroup during illness and recovery
- Distract during stressful times
- Build reading confidence
- Strengthen second language for children and parents
Join Reading Force today and receive a free book and scrapbook for each child!
Watch the video below to find out how Reading Force helped the Broome Family:
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