Reading is quite important for kids as a teacher I know how sometimes even students of higher class are not able to read properly or sometimes teachers themselves are not able to pronounce words properly, coz phonetics is a novice topic in our Indian teaching scenario, still it is not that well taught in our school.; we should introduce this to our kids in very beginning, to; begin with you can; introduce; your kid to; sounds of words first n then symbol in that way they will read words easily n gradually you can introduce them to advance phone tics.