Read to children.                                 Encourage pregnant women to read to their babies before birth.                                 Always carry a book.                                Read in public: in the shopping line, in the waiting room, in restaurants, or waiting for a performance to start.                                 Hold Baby Book Showers for expectant parents.                                 Join or start a book club.                                 Join our Facebook group, ‘Swamp Water Literary Society.’                                 Give books as presents.                                 Read a book during work breaks.                                 Patronize our libraries.                                 Keep a bulletin board at work: What people are reading, what their friends and family are reading, what they want to read next.                                Give books as gifts.                                 Talk with people about what they’re reading.

Changing the world one child at a time

Reading With Kids™ targets the prenatal to pre-kindergarten period of childhood.

Children who have not been read to are disadvantaged in school, and later in the workforce, in the home, and in life. It is estimated that 60% of children who have not been read to by first grade will end up on public assistance, or in jail.

The good news is, the earlier we read with our children, the easier the effort, and the greater the impact. And the most effective strategy for creating an early reading environment is to target parents.