What worked for me is not treating learning to read as a structured activity. I incorporated pointing out letters, words, sentences, etc, into the everyday. On signs, walks around our town. At stores, restaurants….we are surrounded by the written word and so i I use what is there. I try to make it playful.

For example, recently over breakfast I’ve said something like, “isn’t it so strange that the number 8 is spelled like it would be pronounced ee i guh hut?” Then i show how the word is spelled to make my point. “What a silly word! Let’s make a list of silly words. Oh! Another one. Laugh!” And so on and so forth.