Phalaen: Just start reading and make it a game!

We read before he goes to bed every night. It is a habit we started when he was 1 year old.  Now I just substitute one of the books with Sagebooks. We typically do 5 lessons a day.

First day I would just read the whole thing while pointing out characters for all five lessons and my son would follow along. Second day I would leave out certain characters for him to read out on his own. Third day, he can usually just read all 5 lessons on his own. Then if he shows any sign of being bored, on the fourth day, we move to another 5 new lessons and repeat the process.

Before we move on to the next book, my son would have to be able to read the current book from cover to cover on his own. I would make a game when he gets bored. For example, I read odd pages while he reads even pages or I read odd number lessons while he reads the others.

I have done very few additional activities besides the first 2 months (life happened….). I made magnetic characters and arranged them in phrases on the blackboard. My son then read the phrases out loud. He liked being videotaped so that was his motivation for reading new phrases.  We were on a road trip and when he got bored in the car, he asked me to write short stories (<10 short sentences) so he can recite them back to me.