I was taught reading and writing in state school, but when we moved I went to a Rudolf Steiner school and was put into kindergarten due to my age. They don't start teaching formally until the year you turn 7, so it's play based until then. So when I started in class one they were learning the alphabet which I already knew, despite not remembering any of that process. I loved these new lessons, though, because we got to learn three letters through drawing and making each of them into an object they could represent. To this day I vividly recall drawing a house with uppercase H as its base shape.
I didn't get to teach my own girls to begin to read and write, as they started out in the school system, but I think I would have then the creative approach too. I just tweaked things a bit and helped them with ways to break down words, remember which way letters went, etc.
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