Tomorrow I get the key to my classroom so I don't expect to be around much. So I wanted to get this thought down. The real motivation for starting this blog was to hopefully show parents that it doesn't take much to raise a reader (I know most of you wonderful friends/followers already know this but still.) You see my oldest reader M (age 8) floored me when she picked up at new book Grandma's at age 4.5 and read it cover to cover. Then when she went to K I learned that she knew 520+ words. I never knew that she knew so much OR how she learned it. I thought it may be a fluke. Good genes. Lucky. I'm still not sure but I'm pretty sure that I am going to do the very same things with T girl #2, J (age 3). Here are the things I believe you need in your home to raise a reader. Hold on to your seats because it is really VERY simple. 1. Have a bedtime reading routine (we set aside 30 min. but of that time I only read 2 boo...