A new campaign encouraging parents to include reading, writing and playing in their child's everyday life has been launched by the Scottish Government.
Read, Write, Count will provide children in primaries 1 to 3 with a gift of books and literacy and numeracy learning materials through their school.
It is part of efforts to tackle educational inequalities and raise attainment in the early years, and will be delivered with Education Scotland and the Scottish Book Trust.
It comes after the Scottish Survey of Literacy 2014 published earlier this year showed a drop in standards of reading and writing in some age groups.
Education Secretary Angela Constance said: "Ensuring children read, write and count well early is key to their success at school and in life.
"There's lots of really good work already under way across Scotland and Read, Write, Count will bring some exciting new and fun ideas into the mix.
"Crucially, it will encourage parents and families to play a key role in helping their children - something all the evidence suggests can have a big impact on how well children do at school.
"I was proud to launch PlayTalkRead nationally in 2011, which encouraged parents to play, talk and read more often with their children. Read, Write, Count takes the idea of learning further."
She added: "It's understandable that any parent or carer could feel daunted about playing a part in their child's education.
"That's why our campaign offers support on bringing fun and learning in to everyday activities with their child to make life happier and easier."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel