Teach? Yes and no - and this may be the only place I can say this: we come from a family of early readers and I just ASSUMED my kids would learn to read before they started school - and they did.
What I did do: read to them CONSTANTLY, exposed them to LOTS of "sight words," and our home is a super text-rich environment.
My DC seemed to pick up reading from the sight words, because those were the first words I noticed them reading. I do think that if they read enough sight words, they really do seem to just "figure out" or "understand" the rest. Honestly, from there, they simply figured out decoding - they are both EXCELLENT decoders. Then, when I'd read to them, I'd notice they were no longer simply listening, but following along (they would CORRECT me if I started to improvise, which I sometimes do when I'm getting tired
).
To be fair, I don't think my DC are "typical" - but neither are most of the DC on this list.
