» This handbook is intended for use by teachers and other literacy educators who are interested in implementing the research-based Reading Together programme for groups of parents and caregivers whose children are at primary or junior secondary school levels.

» Brock: A 'reading book' for adults is used for one of the activities within the workshop programme. Brock has a special alphabet which has been invented to help adults gain some understanding of what children experience as they are learning to read.

» The three 'traffic light' bookmarks indicate to parents how to help their children with books brought home from school i.e. whether the book should be 'read with' the child (orange), or 'read to' the child (red), or whether it is a book which the child can read independently (green).