Quote Originally Posted by Rockphed View Post
Does anybody have an experience teaching young children to read? We are trying to get my 5-year-old reading, and it is frustrating.
I remember my younger brother didn't learn to read until he was 7, and that my parents and I helped him learn with a book that really pushed the phonetic aspects of the language with some specialized diacritics, font sizes, and the like. It worked decently.

I also remember teaching myself to read when I was two, which basically came down to a floor level book case full of Doctor Seuss being available to me, plus my parents reading to me. That combination of knowledge and options is probably pretty easy to recreate, and while it doesn't always work I'm far from the only person to teach myself to read. I assume most people do.