Make use of your local library. Go with your children and help them choose books. Keep the books in a special place and read them together. It is the availability of the books, not the ownership of them, that is important. Also, make your children aware of the letters and words that are all around them.
Children love to label and identify the things they see.
While you ride together in a car or walk through a store, point to signs and ask children if they know the letters. Keep some simple tips in mind when reading with your children. Routines are very important to children, and reading should become part of a routine. Set aside some quality time for reading, and even if it is only 15 minutes three times per week, you are establishing a good habit in your children's lives. Talk about what you are reading and connect it with past experiences children have had or with other stories you have read together.