A very easy way to teach your baby to read is to label the house.  If you don't want to have your house looking like a school room, you can work on one room at a time.  If you want to download 40 free printable labels for items around the house just Click Here.  You can start with baby's room.  Tape the words around baby's room and several times a day point out the words and the objects that they identify.  It takes seconds to do and your baby will quickly and easily learn to read the word labels.  After your baby has seen the words around 20 times, you can ask your baby if they know where a certain word is.  Who knows?  They may just surprise you.