Children's Literature Sites Reading and Children's Literature Parents can support a child in learning to read in a number of ways. First, children need to see parents reading at home.
Parents also show how important reading in when they use the telephone book or read recipes.
Next, children need to have lots of their own books at home to read. The Public Library is another important place for children to get to know. According to some reading researchers, young children need to have 1000 books read to them before they reach kindergarten in order to provide a good foundation in the pre-reading skills of listening, viewing, understanding how books work, and hearing the language of storybooks. Children who read succeed. The most significant part of a child's mental growth between the ages of three and seven is the ability to imagine.