Read aloud to you child daily (even if it's only for 10 - 15 minutes).
Visit the library often. (Make sure your child has his/her own library card.)
Buy your child a reading lamp. (Reading at bedtime is a wonderful way to end the day.)
Read in front of children. Remember, children imitate the behaviors they see. You are your child's model; he/she will do the same things you do.
Curtail the TV viewing and the video game playing.
Buy books for gifts. (Any celebration is a time for a book!)
Keep a list of favorite books as ideas to give as birthday gifts.
Donate a book to your child's class on his/her birthday.
Create a cozy "snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug" reading corner in your home.
Leave stacks of books around your home.
Keep a book in your purse for those "waiting times."
Keep a baggie of books in the car.
Subscribe to children's magazines
Buy or make tapes of favorite books. Listen to tapes in the car, or instead of watching TV.
Read books about things around you or places that you'll be visiting on vacation.
Put magnetic letters on the refrigerator door giving children an opportunity to play and organize them in many ways.
Purchase a magnetic poetry set.
Post a sign on the refrigerator, "We're going to the library. What kind of books do you want?" Have your family write down their choices.
Put maps on the wall.
Create text for wordless picture books by using sticky notes.
Ask relatives and friends to send your child postcards during their travels.
Make a jigsaw puzzle from postcards.
Play word games such as "Spill and Spell," or "Boggle."
Make your own Bingo game.
Have your children write their own books. Display them with pride on your bookshelf.
Find movies based on books and compare the two.
Put a note or poem in your child's lunch box.
Purchase message type napkins for special events.
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