Family literacy is the strongest possible foundation for future strong readers, and family literacy exists in literacy-rich homes.  You may ask yourself, "How can I make my home a literacy-rich home?" 

• Talk to your children, from the time they are born.  Familiarity with language, inflection, vocabulary, listening and responding - these concepts are the earliest building blocks of literacy, and young children, even infants, internalize them simply by interacting and observing your behavior.
• Read to your children...early and often.  Even infants can benefit and learn from the relaxation and comfort of being held while hearing the gentle sounds of language from story books.  Daily reading sessions can teach fundamental concepts of print (read left to right, hold a book right side-up, turn pages...etc) and have lasting benefits for future language development and love of books.  
• Interact with your child.  Play peek-a-boo; recite nursery rhymes.  Nursery rhymes are beneficial on so many levels: rhyming, counting, storytelling...etc.  Count things, identify colors, shapes and sizes.  When reading, ask your child to predict what happens next using clues from the pictures in the book and your child's own experiences.  Questoning/predicting, using picture clues and relating text to personal experience are the basis for reading comprehension.
• Teach your child the alphabet (the ABC's song), read alphabet books, play with letter blocks while teaching letter identification and letter sounds