Strategies for supporting reading at home:

• 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