Help your child find a quiet, comfortable place to read.
Have your child see you as a reading model.
Read aloud to your child. Reread favorite stories.
Read with your child.
Discuss the stories you read together.
Recognize the value of silent reading.
Keep reading time enjoyable and relaxed.

Talk about the book. For example, discuss the important ideas, the way the pictures help tell the story, or the most interesting part of the book.
Have your child read the book aloud to you. It's important for beginning readers to point to the first letter of each word as they read. This helps to focus attention on the letter-sound relationships.
Praise him or her for all the words they know, for the important job they are doing each day by studying and learning, and for their responsibility in bringing the books back and forth each day.

Ask your child to show you where to begin reading, which way to go, and where to go after that.

Have your child point under the first letter of each word as he/she reads a new story.

Have your child find ONE or TWO known words on a difficult page of text.

Have your child find a few new and difficult words after your child predicts the first letter(s) of the word.

Have your child find familiar parts within a new word.

Your child is well on the way to developing independent self-correction strategies when he/she can monitor
independently. Search the picture for meaning cues and specific vocabulary.
Re-read a sentence fluently to the problem word.
Make the first sound of the word.
Say what makes SENSE.
Say what SOUNDS right.
Say what LOOKS right.
Encourage self-correction and independent problem solving, by saying: "I like the way you found out what was wrong ALL BY YOURSELF."