Check out these 12 simple tips from Dr. Andrew Johnson to help your child become a better reader!

1. Read to your child
2. Expose your child to words
3. Use pretend reading
4. Expose to rhymes, rhyming books, nursery rhymes, poetry, music
5. Reread the same book
6. Read bedtime stories
7. Have books laying around
8. Make regular trips to the library
9. Talk with (not to) your child
10. Explain things
11. Write letters
12. Play with letters, letter art projects, letter games, and alphabet books to begin