It is important for literacy to begin at home. A parent should encourage reading, model and promote early literacy with children. It is important that children are provided opportunities to read by providing them with a lot of different choices of books to read. Providing children with print materials increases their reading performance. By providing children with reading materials you help them to develop basic reading skills. If you provide children with books they want to read more and for a longer time. Children observe parents, caregivers and siblings use print for different things. By watching others children will begin to understand and learn why writing and reading is important. When parents write or read it is important for you to