• Make sharing books, songs, and rhymes a regular part of your days.
  
  
• Let your child share in the reading process by helping you choose books, turning pages for you as you read, and talking about his or her reactions.
  
  
• Seek out new favorite books, but don't forget to revisit your child's old favorite books from time to time.
  
  
• If your child is often restless, try to minimize distractions such as outside noise during your reading times.
  
  
• Experiment to find books with the amount of text per page that fits your child's current attention span.
  
  
• Interact with your child while you read. Encourage your child to join you as you point at and name items in the pictures, make animal noises, sing, laugh, and have fun.
  
  
• Pick books that both of you enjoy.
  
  
• Try a variety of materials and a variety of styles of sharing them: quiet, dramatic, soothing, silly, etc.
  
  

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