Most educators, parents, and most people...would agree that reading is a key to having life-long learners. And learners that are excited about discovering and understanding new things by opening up a book! 
Each day we have story time where we read at least 1-2 books, usually with the emphasis on the letter we are learning that week or the subject (or both!). Also, as the children finish their snack and we are transition to Craft/Activity time, the children are able to go to a spot or in a rotation where they get to spend time looking at a large selection of books. I rotate the books each class, so that the children are looking at new pictures, text, and are swept away in the creative imagination that we go on when reading and becoming part of a book.
I love watching the children look through their books, and exclaim over things that are both familiar, and things that are new and very interesting (such as the Science books such as the Shark book that made it into the book basket the other day!). 
{I loved this reading pose that Zack was in....it was hard to angle the camera to get a shot that looks right side up....but again it shows how absorbed children are when reading, they just become engrossed in the book and forget about everything around them!}
To have a child that reads....the solution is simple - Read to your child. 20 minutes is what is suggested for this age group, and doing it all at once, or reading a book here or there throughout the day you will in no time have read all 20 minutes, and probably more!
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