Read to your child every day ~ 15 minutes each day! There is much research on the importance of reading aloud. Show that reading is FUN! Talk about the pictures, events, favorite parts. Reading aloud will expose your child to new words, ideas, places, events, and more complex plots and sentences than beginning reading books have to offer. If your child is learning to read, he/she can read those books. YOU, however, should be reading more difficult picture books to your child, such as the child's library books.