An important part of a child's reading growth is just the enjoyment of books, pure and simple.
Too often we try to push our kids too hard with reading, and we forget why the books were written in the first place! If your child isn't enjoying home reading, then something's wrong, and it's probably not the kid's fault.
In our home reading collection, many of the books are slightly above our students' reading levels, but they are (hopefully!) stories or topics of interest. So it makes sense that an interested family member (a parent, grandparent or caring older sibling) has to sit with the student so the two can share the book together. The purpose is to enjoy the content, mostly by talking about it together or having a conversation about a related idea that pops up.
I should emphasize that book time at home shouldn't be about trying to read every word in the book! This approach will lead to discouragement and perhaps even conflict with your child.
Feel free to talk about the pictures and the content. There's no problem with you reading the text to your child; after all, kids will follow a good role model! Sometimes a child will be glad to find words they know on the page, or just read the headings or the labels on the pictures, and then an adult read the details.
My three kids are now between 9 and 16. Our upstairs bookshelf is clogged with hundreds of books that we used to read together at bedtime. Often I was more tired at that point in the day than my kid! I sometimes found myself nodding off in the middle of "Snow White" or something. ("Dad!...Dad!...Wake up!") So, to help get it done faster, I would try to leave parts of the story out (I hate to admit it). My kids had heard some of those stories so many times that they had memorized every word, and they would always say, "Dad! It doesn't go like that! Read it right!"
Lesson: don't think for a second that they don't listen to you and appreciate the book when you read to them.
Could my kids read every word of those books? Hardly!
Did they learn and enjoy hundreds of stories? Yes!
Were they becoming literate? Absolutely!
Take the pressure off yourself.
Home reading is not, "Time to do your homework!"
It is, "Hey, what book can we enjoy together today?"
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