This guide was developed for parents of young children to help them develop their child's readiness to learn to read and to help them teach beginning reading skills to their child. Background information on the reading process and a quiz entitled, "are you preparing your child to read?" are presented. Activities are suggested for reading to children, encouraging early reading experiences, reading by sight, reading by sound, teaching letter sounds, reading rhyming words, and reading with picture clues. (MKM)