Teaching our children to read and spell can be tough. We know they ARE excited about learning to read ... but the process can be so hard that they just lose interest. I remember one 5-year-old boy I was working with under the old system who dreaded reading so much he would do just about anything to get out of it. I tried to be as fun and engaging as I could as a person, but when I told him one day we had to read at least one page of his reader before we could do anything else, he turned to me wi