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Reading is the most essential skill your child will learn at school. Oxfordshire County Council, the National Literacy Trust and the Oxford Mail have joined forces to launch a new campaign to improve the reading abilities of our children.

Eighty-one primary schools have been invited to sign up to the two-year Get Oxfordshire Reading campaign but we also need your help, whether you're a parent or a volunteer who can help.

Read the stories below and if you want to help, go to www.oxfordshirereading.co.uk

Volunteer readers get some top tips

Oxfordshire Reading Campaign volunteers, left to right, Louise Parkinson, Sue Dunne and Dorothy Sym look through children’s books with volunteer manager Bianca Bailey during a training session at the Oxford Central Library. Picture: OX59318

5:00pm Friday 31st May 2013

VOLUNTEERS taking part in the Oxfordshire Reading Campaign have been getting some top tips on how to choose books for children.

Help needed for summer project

Volunteer Louise Castle, left, with mums and kids at a rhyme time event in Wantage Library

12:00pm Tuesday 28th May 2013

THE county’s libraries are looking for volunteers to encourage children to read over the summer holidays.

Family outings to the library inspire pupils

READ ALL ABOUT IT: Volunteers Barbara Posner, left, and Gill Shepherd with St Nicholas Primary School pupils Abigail Earl, seven, Samuel Kelsey, six, Maisie Stansfield, six, and Camren Curtis, seven

2:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

VOLUNTEERS are helping an Oxford school forge closer links with a local library.

Our Fran inspires love for reading

Oxford Mail education reporter Fran Bardsley reads a book with Star Wars fan Sam Scott at St Ebbe’s Primary School

12:00pm Friday 10th May 2013

NO two children are alike and that certainly seems to be the case with reading.

Young reader is keen to start his journey with Mail campaign

Fran Bardsley reads with with Gertian Lasku

7:00am Monday 29th April 2013

IT takes a lot to persuade a seven-year-old to leave PE on a sunny afternoon to go and sit in a corner with a book and a stranger.

Proof of success to be in school results

Acting programme manager Wendy Tyrrell, left, with National Literacy Trust members Bianca Bailey, Clare Bolton and Leena O’Hara at the launch of the Oxfordshire Reading Campaign in September. Picture: OX54366 Jon Lewis

7:00am Friday 12th April 2013

TEN more schools have signed up to take part in the Oxfordshire Reading Campaign.

City author’s debut is a magical fantasy

Children’s bookseller Josh Clarke

7:00am Tuesday 9th April 2013

A BOOK by an Oxford author will be the next choice for the Oxford Mail Junior Book Club.

Keep reading and stay out of jail says US author

SHOUT IT OUT: Mo Willems reads one of his stories to primary school children

7:00am Friday 5th April 2013

KEEP reading and stay out of jail.

‘Your help is crucial to reading success’

Jake Shepherd and Amelia Mossop at West Kidlington Primary School

7:00am Friday 22nd March 2013

VOLUNTEERS will be crucial to help maintain the enthusiasm these Kidlington children now have for reading.

Your county needs you for reading campaign

County council cabinet member for education Melinda Tilley

6:13pm Thursday 7th March 2013

A RENEWED call has been made for volunteers to help the Oxfordshire Reading Campaign.

Strange characters invade playgrounds for World Book Day

Front, Neil Edmonds, seven, Holly Fratter, 10, left, and Seth Edmonds, 10

7:00am Thursday 7th March 2013

TODAY’S World Book Day provides a perfect opportunity to get youngsters enthused about reading, by dressing up as their favourite storybook character.

Bomb disposal hero's biggest battle... with dyslexia

Lieutenant Colonel Adam McRae

3:00pm Friday 1st March 2013

THE top officer of a regiment dubbed The Real Hurt Locker has backed the Oxford Mail’s Reading Campaign and spoken of his battle against dyslexia.

Schools urged to book place in reading campaign

St Nicholas Primary School headteacher Rachel Crouch at the conference

10:30am Tuesday 26th February 2013

HEADTEACHERS have urged more schools to join the campaign to get Oxfordshire reading.

Chance to prove love of reading

7:00am Saturday 23rd February 2013

SCHOOLS in Oxfordshire are being given a final chance to sign up to the Oxfordshire Reading Campaign.

Mail's junior book of the month is a ripping adventure yarn

Josh Clark of Waterstones says The Mystery of the Vanishing Skeleton is a riveting read

1:00pm Thursday 21st February 2013

AN ADVENTURE series harking back to the days of Enid Blyton is this month’s pick for the Oxford Mail Junior Book Club.

RAF top brass are supporting our campaign

Wing Commander Angela Baker, who reads daily to her two children, in her office in RAF Brize Norton. Picture: Tom Jennings

7:00am Saturday 16th February 2013

LEADING Royal Air Force officers have backed our reading campaign and said literacy is fundamental for children’s futures.

Volunteers ready to help children read

TRAINING: Angela Taylor, left, is to become a volunteer co-ordinator at New Marston Primary, while teaching assistant Sylvia Langden is co-ordinating volunteers at Millbrook Primary School in Grove

7:00am Thursday 14th February 2013

SCHOOLS taking part in the Oxfordshire Reading Campaign are ready to start training volunteers to read with youngsters.

Reading campaign: More schools to look into joining

County council cabinet member for education Melinda Tilley with Buckland Primary School pupils, from left, James Coombs, 10, Joseph Langdon, nine, Abby Hallion-Gammon, 10, and Daisy Torrington, 10

9:00am Monday 4th February 2013

CHILDREN at every Oxfordshire primary school now have the chance to beneift from the county’s flagship reading campaign.

Reading Campaign: Project turns a chapter

Longworth Primary School pupil Amy Bowers

9:00am Monday 4th February 2013

Literacy campaign is spreading to more schools

Reading campaign: 'Scheme has grabbed children's enthusiasm'

Karen Williams with, from left, Ben Hall, Chloe Adams and Noah Jones

9:00am Monday 4th February 2013

A TEACHING assistant who has spent the past eight weeks working with children on the Oxfordshire Reading Campaign has said how impressed she is with the scheme.

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