"Give Your Child the Gift of Reading" is a tool kit book for teaching English reading that is explained in exact details in a simplistic manner so that parents, grandparents/caretakers, tutors, teachers, librarians, and any other literacy professionals who engage with children can “really teach children to read” through a gradual progression of practice activities fundamental to a basic scratch recipe to get children reading effectively in an efficient manner: From practice blending English letter sounds into words; then on to practice reading sentences; then onward to practice reading stories; and finally practice writing about what has been read in the format of letters to book characters which cements reading fluency and comprehension.