How to teach computer programming?

1. Maybe there are a lot of methods to teach computer programming to novices. All of them have been exhaustively used and documented in computer science literature. But most of those studies and related publications have forgotten the most basic and fundamental principle: in order to able to write a person have, in first place, to have a good reading capacity.
2. Having forgotten this most teachers pretends that students begin to write even when they cannot read. Pursuing this line of thought whatever the chosen method (classical or less classical; with beautiful or ugly analogies; with more or less tutorial sessions; beginning with object-programming or structured-programming paradigm) the outcome will be always a “negative” one.
3. The only way to teach students in firsts years of computer programming courses is to teach them how to read computer programs and only after that task accomplished it will make any sense to begin writing computer programs with them.