For parents with children interested in rugby - or sport in general - this is a great chance to get them reading. For pleasure.
Here are 10 quick tips on rugby reading that your children could try as the tournament progresses in the next six weeks.
ONE: download the RBS Six Nations app and keep up to date with official news updates, match analyses and player profiles
TWO: read a copy of the latest Rugby World magazine, packed with interviews and expert anaylsis of the tournament - also try The Rugby Paper
THREE: go to the library and borrow rugby books about players, teams, coaching and the history of the game
FOUR: follow previews to the Six Nations in newspapers - on paper online
FIVE: read one of several children's stories about rugby, including The Rugby Zombies by Dan Anthony, Rugby Spirit by Gerard Siggins and Scrum by Tom Palmer
SIX: check out some of the best sports websites for very up-to-date information and videos of key highlights - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/ is a great one
SEVEN: read one of the new books published in time for the Six Nations, checking out your local library or bookshop, with When Rugby was Rugby or the World Rugby Records 2012 book looking good
EIGHT: buy official RBS Six Nations 2013 magazine, to have on the arm of your sofa as you watch the games
NINE: leave any of the above lying around the house, on the kitchen table or as a screen saver on the home computer, if you have one.
TEN: read some of the above together with your children - reading with kids and talking to them about what you are reading is a great way of finding things out - and a great way of embedding reading in them as a thing to do for pleasure
There are other resources that can help parents, teachers and librarians encourage children to read. Check out my last blog for free schools' packs, book lists and other ideas.
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