The best you can do with a young child is talk to him. Get him to talk to you a lot.

Give him simple picture and text books that you get from the library or the bookstore.

Teach him to sing the alphabet song or recite the alphabet and know the sound of every letter.

Teach him to print his name.

Get him to copy stuff from a book.

If your child has problems learning to read, you might want to get his hearing and vision checked out. If they're fine, it might be something in his brain.

The principal's office of your local elementary school can help you arrange screening and remediation, if necessary by specialists, at no cost to you.

As the child learns to read, you must give him harder, more complex stories and articles to read so that he can build up his vocabulary.

Give him a variety of fiction and nonfiction.

Open the dictionary to any page and ask him to copy all multisyllabic words four vowels or more then recite them to you when he's done.

Teach compound words like treehouse or doubletime.

Teach the "pn" combination as in pneumonia.

The parent should discuss with the child what he has just read at least once a week.

Get some tongue twisters off the internet. Have the kid say them.

There are many word games like Scrabble.

Gradually teach sentence structure and grammar by correcting the child and explaining the proper English.

Explain that the ability to talk and write are necessary for the child to grow up to be a noble being.

Correct double negatives.

Correct slang like ain't.