Raising confident readers: how to teach your child to read and write, from baby to age seven

Start early: nurture you child's brain as it grows into reading

The brain-based formula: repetition-enthusiasm-attention-drawing

Find your child's phase: determine where to go and what to do next to raise your confident reader

Teaching reading in phase 0: building foundations, from reading aloud at birth to teaching your child to write his own name

Teaching reading in phase 1: it's time for the ABC's

Teaching reading in phase 2: mapping letters to sounds

it's EZ for U to read!

Teaching reading in phase 3: Spelling with a letter for each sound: "The cat sat on the mat" + phonics = reading up a storm!

Teaching reading in phase 4: from chunking to chapter books: the final climb to confident reading

Is everything on track?: awakening literacy with confidence.