Reading Dutch every day — even a single article or a few pages — builds vocabulary, grammar intuition, and cultural familiarity simultaneously. Start with content matched to your level: children’s books (Jip en Janneke, Pluk van de Petteflet) for A1–A2; graded readers and Dutch news summaries (NOS Nieuws in Gewone Taal — NOS News in Plain Language) for B1; mainstream newspapers (de Volkskrant, NRC, Trouw) for B2+.
The lookup habit: when you encounter an unknown word, look it up immediately, record it (in Anki or a vocabulary notebook), and keep reading. Do not stop for every word — aim to look up only words that block comprehension or appear more than once. Over time, your unknown-word density decreases as your vocabulary grows. Reading and vocabulary acquisition are mutually reinforcing: more reading produces more vocabulary, which makes reading easier, which produces more reading.
Dutch comic books (stripboeken) are an underrated resource: Suske en Wiske, De Avonturen van Kuifje (Tintin in Dutch), and Asterix in Dutch are widely available and combine visual context with authentic Dutch dialogue. For fiction readers, Dutch crime novels (misdaadromans) by authors like Appie Baantjer or Tomas Ross are approachable and engaging.