I’ve downloaded Bookbot - now what?

Here is a step by step guide on how to start your child reading and ensure that practice is continued.

1. Download the app and sit with your child to make a profile. Let them choose their favourite Bookbot as their avatar. 
   
   
2. Help your child to choose a starting level. Try reading some of the examples.
   
   
3. Scroll through the newly created library and read out some of the titles. Try to guess what the book might be about.
   
   
4. Let your child choose a book. Listen to your child repeat the practice words in the book.
   
   
5. Read through the book together. Let your child navigate as much as possible and rate the book at the end.
   
   
6. Set a reading goal with your child. Ask them what they would like to achieve by using Bookbot. There are some example goals if you both get stuck. Or try the 5 day challenge. Write down the goal on a piece of paper.
   
   
7. Decide together how many times a week your child will need to read to achieve their goal. Be realistic. Lives are busy. Three to four times a week is enough to promote improvement.
   
   
8. Stick it up somewhere that it will be seen often (the fridge works well).
   
   
9. When your child reads, put a sticker on the chart, or tick it off.
   
   
10. Then make sure you deliver a reward when the chart is full or the goal has been reached. The reward can be as simple as choosing what the family has for dinner, or a physical reward such as a small gift.