I want to start teaching DS to read, what books/flashcards should I buy?

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He is 3 next month. He knows all his numbers and some letters. Are there any good books you could recommend for both him - to learn, and for me - to teach me how best to teach?
Not pushing him btw, he keeps asking.

Have bought the Jolly Phonics books.

DS also likes those wipe clean boards for practising letters and numbers on - Tesco have them for £3, cheaper than Amazon.

He also reads a lot of rhyming books. Hairy Maclary a big favourite and wracking my brain to think of loads more...

I wouldn't buy anything that smacks of "now we are going to sit down and learn to read". I have two very keen early readers, but flashcards etc would have bored them to tears.

Play loads of games involving letters and words, do lots of reading together. Tell him what street signs, shop signs, cereal packets etc say when he's interested. Don't spend loads of money - but bide your time and see what he picks up.

And if you do check with the pre-school what system they use, bear in mind that he may get totally bored if you use the same one so he has to do it twice. DD1 knew all her letters at a similar age, but still had loads of fun with Jolly Phonics in Reception, because she hadn't learned the actions, which are fun.

Incidentally, she also never grasped blending sounds (despite knowing all her letters) until she started school. But once she'd got it, she stormed ahead. So don't be discouraged if he doesn't move much beyond knowing his letters for now - just keep laying good foundations.

When mine wanted to learn to read I printed my own flash cards. I did dc names, mummy, daddy first then added more as they wanted them.

Also found they enjoyed reading shop signs and street names.

Someone on here re a different discussion said that poissonrouge.com was good.
I have had a little look, and it looks like lots of fun. Will show the little one tomorrow.

I used Mr Men books (i'm not joking). The easiest way ever is to do it using phonics. Ask your child to read the letter phonetically, then squeeze the letters together and say them without the space so that they are a word. My ds moved on to joke books after these.