Appropriate grades or age groups:
Preschool and Younger
Elementary School
Middle School
High School & Beyond

Activity set-up/instructions or description of technique:
You really got me wondering what I had done that made my daughters, ages 7 and 9, the reading lovers that they are today. The only answer I found was that my husband and I love to read, too. I get into a novel so deeply some times that the housework gets quite neglected. My husband, on the other hand, can tune out almost everthing when he is reading the daily newspaper or his favorite magazine.
When my daughter was learning to read, I had books I had read as a girl that I could hardly wait for her to read. We would buy them or borrow them from the library and she could see my excitment. I would ask her what part of the book she was reading and we would talk about it together.
Our trips to the bookstore are major events. Usually, we all walk away with something.
My younger daughter has just begun reding on her own in school this year. She sees her parents and her big sister reading all the time and she loves it now too. The more she reads, the better she reads and the better she reads the more she wants to.
We have a newborn who will have the benefit of four reading-role models.