Jim Trelease is well-known journalist and author of "The Read-Aloud Handbook." His website links to many useful resources for teachers, parents, and other readers.
Anne Cunningham's excellent and readable review of the impact of independent reading by children and reading aloud with children on vocabulary growth. Benefits accrue regardless of reading or cognitive ability when children are provided materials they can read with understanding.
One way to support wide reading developing readers is to pursue their interests. Search "videos with onscreen lyrics" and add the singer, music type, title, etc. This broad search of just "videos with onscreen lyrics yielded 150 million results--that's a lot of motivating text for a lot of readers.