What are good ways to teach a child how to read?

Children who read at the age of 4 and below are often seen as geniuses, while those who take a longer time in learning how to read are classified as slow. A child who’s really reading does more than just sound out a word like “cat.” He must also be able to know whether a “cat” is a person, place, or thing; to comprehend the grammar in each sentence. Does the cat wear the hat or does the hat wear the cat?; to dramatize and contextualize the story in his head?  and to empathize with the story’s characters and understand the ramifications of their actions. In other words, reading Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat is an incredibly complex task that requires significant understanding beyond just being able to sound out words. It’s based as much on a knowledge of how the world works as it is on how language works. So even though a toddler or a preschooler may not be ready to translate letters into phonemes into words, she is able to start gaining the contextual grounding that will allow her to give those words meaning.

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