Teaching a child how to read can be done by reading interesting stories. Children will love hearing stories and that could be used as a tool to inculcate the habit of reading at a much early age. Gift your child more of books that will interest him. Sit with the child and read out a story with expressions and little bit of dramatization. Such expressions and voice modulations will make the story interesting and the helps in capturing the attention of the child. He will be able to understand the expressions and sounds that you make. Such methods will provoke the child to read a story all by him.