7 Simple Strategies for Teaching Young Children to Read The most foundational building block of a person’s education is learning to read. One who can read well can learn virtually anything. Parents tend to assume that teaching their children to read is difficult—something only a professional educator could accomplish. Many parents consider teaching a child to read the job of the teacher, not the parent. However, young children can easily be taught to read at home before they ever walk into a kindergarten classroom. It’s not difficult at all, really, for most children to learn to read naturally alongside their parents.