As reading becomes a very important time for parents and children, there are some ways to make the reading process fun and interactive. One of the obvious ways is to sit down with the children and read an exciting book. Or perhaps, parents and children can attend a story time at a local library or bookstore. But reading can be more than just looking at books. There are many ways and tips to help parents encourage reading at home. In particular, playing with magnetic letters is one fun way to do so. But if parents don't have these reading tools, they can use letters from cereal boxes. This is such a fun way to introduce different letters, word sounds and different print of letters. Another great reading project is creating letters of each child name using paper sentence strips. This promotes learning each child's name, letter recognition, and writing. Letter recognition can be fun when using everyday reading and writing tools as seen on Figure 1.

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