Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Elaine Bruner, Phyllis Haddox, Siegfried Engelmann (1983, Paperback)

My wife and I have nine children ages 23 down to six (writing this review in 2007). I am now on lesson #73 with the last two children. Over the last 18 years, I have had the privilege to teach every one of my children to read, using this simple yet profoundly efffective book. We wore out 3 copies! Each daily lesson takes about 10 minutes in the beginning, increasing to about 20 minutes per day at the end. After 100 lessons, each of my children were reading at least at a strong second/third grade level. Once you teach a child to love reading, you have given them the greatest educational gift possible. I know of no better way to instill a love for reading than to have mom or dad teach it. Your greatest challenge after this book will be to keep your child supplied with good books (check out sonlight.com for tons of great titles for all ages). You don't need any special skills to use 100 Easy Lessons, everything is completely scripted for you. I strongly recommend this book for anyone with a child ready to learn to read. There is no experience quite like watching the world of reading come alive for a child, especially your own.