Congratulations St Patrick’s Primary, Annaghmore!

Congratulations to St Patrick’s Primary School, Annaghmore – the winners of our latest Facebook competition. We are busy bundling up 500 nearly new reading scheme books for their school library. Well done St Patrick’s and Orla for entering the competition on their behalf!

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Celebrate National Poetry Day!

To Celebrate National Poetry Day, Reading Chest is giving away a free copy of John Foster’s Oxford Rhyming Dictionary to all new members who sign up with the discount code ‘POETRY’ before Sunday 7 October!You will also get £5 off your first month’s membership!! In addition to all our other beautiful information books and story (more…)

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Beginning School, Beginning Reading

When children begin school, learning to read is one the most important things they will do and so it is essential for parents to feel confident when helping children read and also to understand the school system. Do not compare your child’s reading level to others in the class. Some 4 year olds may be (more…)

New Website Launched!

We are very excited to have just launched our new website with lots of exciting features! Our number one is the new favourites list. You can now create a favourites list of individual titles, which we will prioritise when posting books out. These could be books within your chosen book band that you just like (more…)

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To Celebrate World Book Day on 1 March…

World Book Day is all about getting children excited about reading! We love World Book Day! To celebrate – all new members who join Reading Chest this week will be sent their own Oxford First Atlas to keep.

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100 Million Minutes Reading Challenge!

Reading Chest is a proud partner of the 100 Million Minutes Reading Challenge 2018 – a national reading initiative from education charity Achievement for All millionminutes.afaeducation.org/ Together with schools, early years settings, parents, carers, child minders and community groups up and down the country children and young people will have just one week to read (more…)

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