Reading literacy and language ideas and activities in this guide brings families and educators together, embraces learners' natural curiosity and develops the love of reading. Promoting literacy-reading, thinking, writing, listening and speaking at home makes a difference. Reading for fun becomes a lifelong routine, schooling is easy and graduations are a given. Why read? Reading develops the imagination. Reading helps you write and speak correctly. Reading takes you places you have never visited. Reading takes you to a time you have never experienced. Reading introduces you to people you have not met. Reading introduces you to new ideas. Reading entertains you. Nancy Carter Ball, my grandmother, taught, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Early Literacy advocates agree the most favorable time to learn to read is Pre-K through Grade Three. The teaching and learning of reading includes: talking and being listened to, reading and being read to, singing and being sung to, and guiding learners through the sensible and researched plan in Reading is Thinking-Evelyn Williams English.