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[quote=Anonymous]There are several older threads on DCUM which cover this in detail.

I strongly disagree with whoever said not to teach your child.  We have been teaching our children to read at home at preschool age (roughly 3-5 yrs old) for at least 4 generations now, with exact timing varying with each child’s interest and readiness.  It has consistently paid off with children who are good readers, with great comprehension, and who love to read both as children and as adults.

The 100 Days book has worked for many, and is a good option, but it did not happen to work well for us.

Teach the phonetic sound of each letter first.  Defer teaching the “name” of each letter until much later on.  For “c” use the “k” sound at first, then later explain it also can have a different sound.  For vowels, start with short vowel sounds.  We used the Jolly Phonics materials to teach this, 2-3 pages each day.  A quirk of JP is that it does not teach that ph- has an f- sound, but that is easily fixed.

Once they have the basic set of Phonics down, buy or borrow the Bob Books and work through those one after another.  Have child read out loud to you each day for maybe 5-10 minutes.  Keep reading to them daily.  Tell them that you read you them each day and now they also will read to you.  Start by reading maybe 2-3 pages/day from the Bob books.  The Bob books introduce sounds in a reasonable sequence and are careful to only use words which 100% follow the rules of Phonics.

After that, move to Phonics based early readers. Multiple good options exist; we used the Jolly Phonics readers, in sequence, all the way through.  This approach gives the child both skills and confidence.
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