by Sabrina Garibian posted in Products & Prizes

My son started reading at a little over 4 years old. While I'd like to credit his superhero brain power and brilliance, I know it's more than that. He wanted to read and was motivated to learn, thanks to watching a few friends who are early-readers. We also worked hard to find the right tools to teach him and to allow him to also teach himself.
I often think I'm failing as a parent, but this is one thing we did right. My son showed increased interest in learning to read, we provided him with the right tools and encouraged him to practice for a few minutes each night, and after some normal frustrating and invigorating breakthroughs, it all just clicked.

We didn't do flashcards or memorization of sight words. Our son is still young, and we let him decide the pace. At just shy of 5 years old Raffi has now moved onto the Magic Treehouse chapter books, reading a few pages to himself each evening. He also really enjoys listening to me read long books these days, and I notice his eyes follow along with the words. The days of skipping words and full on sentences is over! He notices. And then asks me to start over.
I'm not a teacher by trade and I have nothing but my own experience to share here, but since this worked for us I thought it might work for you.
Here are the 5 books/book series I credit to teaching my son to read (oh, and his natural brilliance too, of course):
1. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (Amazon, $15...