DS6 used to get extremely frustrated when he had to read to us so a while back, we started getting him to read the same favourites over and over again to build up fluency and confidence at the same time. With new books, we would take turns reading so that he would get to read the easier words and we read the rest. Actually in the beginning, we would only ask him to read one word per page and we always made it an easy one.
As for choice of books, the Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems were a huge hit. Kevin Bolger also has a few really funny learn to read books that our boys love.
