Use the public library to make books accessible around your home.
Use timers and other devices to set reminders for daily reading time.
All types of reading count and choice is important. This includes articles, newspapers, and magazines too.
Select a room where your family spends a lot of time. Then find a place in the room to keep a few books (or other reading material) for each family member. You might use a shelf, basket, cabinet, or other type of storage. This will make it easy for all family members to grab something to read when they have a few minutes of downtime. If picking up a book is as easy as picking up the TV remote or a phone or computer, you increase the likelihood it will happen.
Continue to read aloud to children of all ages.
Read while watching television by using closed captioning.
Explore one of the options below.
"When it comes to summer reading, it does not matter WHAT books students read, it matters THAT they read!"
~Patty McGee
Resources:
Scholastic: Reading Report: The Summer Reading Imperative
Washington Post: Getting kids to read: The 5 key habits of lifelong readers
University of Tennessee at Knoxville: Summer reading is key to maintaining or improving students' reading skills