1. Take a trip to the library or other place where young children’s books are kept. Introduce young children to the look and feel of books. Very young children will probably want to “eat” the books first. However, most young children’s books are covered with plastic or another type of protective cover. Very young children tend to focus on their sense of smell, taste, and touch first. Allowing them to have a favorable sensory experience with books may give them a “first” sense of pleasure with books that promotes later favorable encounters.

2. Select books with LOTS of pictures (young children’s books). Point out the pictures so the children see them clearly and can make visual associations. Make the pictures interesting to you as well. What you enjoy, the child will enjoy. That’s one of the ways they build their “library” of pleasurable things.

3. Assist the child in using their eyes to look around the room and the pages. Point out items of interest, things that appeal to you. Add plenty of other sensory input like touch and smell. Move the child close to the item you point out so the baby can touch it and possibly smell it, too. This can become a rather enjoyable and fun game - pointing out, then touching. Add to this an auditory identification - a name - and the child comes to understand what things are when they see them in a picture in a book. Later, you will use a similar process to assist the child in identifying words and associating those words to the items of which they already have sensory memory.

4. Spend only a half hour to one hour (depending on the attention span of the child). Honoring the child’s attention and interest span encourages children to experience the reading process as a pleasurable and enjoyable one.

Taken From: A Course in Light Speed Reading
A Return to Natural Intuitive Reading