If a child does not learn to read in the early grades, there are few opportunities for them to catch up. Therefore, the extent of a child's exposure to reading before the early school years is not only important, but critical. In this column, the author suggests ten easy ways to make reading a part of every young child's day: (1) Read and reread your child's favorite book; (2) Read comic books to your child; (3) Let your child read to you; (4) Let your child be the storyteller; (5) Subscribe to a children's magazine; (6) Save and recycle junk mail; (7) Leave closed captioning on while watching television; (8) Play different versions of tic-tac-toe; (9) Play "I Spy"; and (10) Talk to your child.