@readingroots: How a child learns to read, in 30 seconds!!! Not ABC. Sounds. It's "s", not "suh". A new set of sounds every week, practising the old ones. Gluing the sounds together to make words. Then sounds made of two letters. Digraphs. ch and sh. Chip and ship. Practise until it's fluent. By the end of their second year at school they'll have been taught all of the sounds on the list here! The full list is called the Big Phonics Chart. Comment CHART and I'll send it to you free.