What do others think? I obviously want my child to learn to read. He is doing well enough - painstakingly using phonics to decode words. I am trying to get him to using the context and pictures but his major strategy is phonics. Nightly or morning reading of his reader is proving quite torturous. I try to make it fun. I have an education background so know what to do but sometimes I think is this really so very important when he is so young and wants to go outside and play and explore and make things.
I am an avid reader and a bedtime story has been a nightly ritual from the word go. The librarians nearby know us so books and reading are a huge part of our lives.