There are 3 very important strategies that parents can use when they're listening to their children read.

1. Pause - While your child is reading and comes to a word that they don't know, give them time to think and help themselves. Don't jump straight in and tell them the missing word. Leave as much of the responsibility for reading the word with your child. This empowers your child as a reader.

2. Prompt - After waiting at least 10 seconds and you can see that they need help, don't give them the answer right away. Give them a prompt instead. A prompt is a hint to assist your child so that he'll think and look at the clues in the words and pictures.

3. Praise - Give as much praise as possible. When your children are reading with you, it is important that they receive feedback on their reading in the form of praises.

I'd like to add an R to your P's, Nazreen … REPETITION.  My little one likes to be read the same book over and over because she enjoys the fact that she knows the story and can “read along” even though she doesn't know all the words yet.  The good thing is, she has memorized the lines and now she is getting familiar with the way those words look on paper!  She loves being able to find those words out in public too!

I think it depends on the parent.  I LOVE to read, so I am all about having a house full of books to dive into on a rainy day.  My kids see me reading and they want to read too.  My husband has difficulty reading and is turned off by books that look lengthy.  He has wanted to become a pilot since he was a child, but he won't read through the manuals so that he can take his pilot's test!  He encourages the kids to read because he sees that it CAN be enjoyable and he also knows first hand what a hindrance it can be if you don't like to or struggle through it.

We don't do a lot of bedtime reading here anymore, though I wish we did. It just doesn't seem to quiet my kids the way it “should” - lol.  They become full of questions and want to read more and more, it seems to be a stimulant to them (it is for me) … so we spend some cuddle time after baths and then we numb our minds with tv.  It's bad, I know, but it works.