How to teach 3 year old to read...?

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You've got lots of replies so I haven't read them all. We intend to make story books out of DS's paintings/drawings. A friend works with kids over seas in 3rd world countries and she believes that drawings are a chidls 1st language. She said that when they do a drawing/painting ask them what it is and the story behind it. Then in big letters you can simplify the story and write it on a page that goes with the drawing. Because the child already knows the story they will be able to identify the words easier kwim. So we will laminate the drawings and in colorful crayon write the story. then we bind together a dozen of them and then we'll have a book which DS essentially has made and they are his stories

I forgot to add that she does this with the kids to teach them to read, not just for fun (although it is fun) she said that the kids who did this with their won stories learnr to read quicker than those who didn't.