Reading instruction in most local schools is in a state of crisis. Fully two-thirds of the nation's 4th and 8th graders are NOT proficient readers - this according to the US government publication Nation's Report Card. To rely on your local school to teach your child to read is to risk playing a form of Reading Roulette with your child's future. Don't do it. Parents have been teaching their own children to read for centuries. It's not difficult to...