How to teach a 4 year old to read?

[MessyMummy15]

Can anyone help me with some tips or tricks on how to introduce my 4 year old to reading.
Is there a particular scheme that people follow?

He's four and a half and can currently identify numbers individually perfect but often mixes up his letter ie: d & b
He can recognise his name as a group of letters but Only that word.

What are my next steps to get him to be able to assign sounds to letters and start sounding out words. Can anyone suggest games to help him progress?

I'd recommend https://www.udemy.com/help-your-child-to-read-and-write/ if your child is showing an interest in learning.

Itsaboojum schools use phonics because there's plenty of evidence to show it's the most effective strategy for all readers. As for schools choosing it because there are plenty of resources that's nonsense, there are just as many, if not more resources available for Look and Say, balanced literacy, whole word methods.

"There are certain difficulties. The most visible is that children learn to spell incorrectly by using "phonically logical" (should that be "fonicklee lojickull" only if they've been taught by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about

This is probably a bit late if a post. I home Ed my 3 kids and the baby will be when he is a bit older. As many have said, teach the love of reading first. We would often have times throughout the day where TV and music were turned off and we would snuggle up and read so they’d look forward to that time. Additionally, you can show reading in action when you bake with your LO and run your finger across the pages getting them to get the ingredients. That shows a direct reward for reading, knowledge and the impending cake!!! Using reading eggs for sight words, hairy letters for scribing is very helpful if you let your child have screen time, you can use the aforesaid apps. You can also buy a pack from the works from the BBC I’ve used with 3 of my kids, which teaches phonics: unknown
Learn at Home:Fun with Phonics: Letters and Sounds Pack (Watch and Learn)
Coursepack Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1406644869, ISBN-10: 1406644862

You can then move on to mrswordsmith for vocabulary enhancing. I have trialed teaching one child very early to read and trialed another via the later method that Germany use at age 6.5/ 7 both work, but I can see my 7 year old is more mature when it comes to sitting and physically writing and comprehension. But reading which I started around 5 seemed to be better when it was self-lead and fun rather than structured and forced as in a school setting. So my final advice is, whatever you do make it fun and show that learning is life long. All the best.

Hi all I have recently found out about a new voice-activated app designed to encourage children to learn to read called Yap Books and wondered if anyone had heard of it? My kids, although a bit older, think its very cool as it shows pictures and animations as you speak. Definitely worth checking out if you have a reluctant reader.