Great topic fatima786, I look forward to hearing what others say, too.
I think one of the most important things is what Doman said ... to stop while they are still wanting more. I've taught my 4 boys to read. The 4th was the easiest so far. Our house is full of books and yet we borrow tons of books from the library every week.
For the younger children I limit them to 3 books (so I can keep track of them). (Okay, sometimes we go to the library more than once a week....) But to get back to my 4th child, he asked me to teach him how to read. I hemmed and hawed and finally agreed
. We'd do a short lesson (this was before I knew the Doman method) and quit. He'd have to come and ask me the next day or I might forget to give him a lesson. We used
www.starfall.com and I told him he'd need to know the sounds the letters make so he could learn to read. He did a lot of that on his own. I read aloud to the boys during breakfast (often history or science related things, for homeschooling). I'd read to him if he asked nicely. Boy, the poor child, you'd think he'd get discouraged and not want to read.
He is in kindergarten and reads at the 2nd grade level now (I think).
My 5th, the baby, usually wants me to keep reading, but I usually have to stop before he's had enough. (I do warn him, "This is the last book, then I need to ....")
All 4 self-reading boys love to read. It is great to hear them laughing at something while they read. Then they'll come running saying, "Mom, listen to this!" and read me a portion. I do the same to them. I start laughing and they're all, "What? What? What was so funny?"
I don't know if that was helpful at all.
I guess I'm just trying to say, relaxing and "being stingy" with my "teaching" (or reading) while sharing the joy of reading helped a lot. Oh, and the boys go through fits of reading. Sometimes they read tons and other times they are more interested in hanging upside down from a bar, skateboarding, drawing …. (We borrow books about those things from the library, too
)
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