Home Schooling, Early Years: READING, Learning to Recognise the Short Words, that are Very Common.

We are now moving on from 'glueing' letter combos together e.g. 'B-a' , makes smooth 'BA' sound 'M-o' sound 'MO' etc. The new 'warm up O and I are going to be doing before he would move onto reading itself, will be learning to recognise short words like 'AND' or 'HE / SHE' that seem to crop up a lot.  Some of them are a bit tricky to a complete beginner, so it seems easier to get him to recognise few common ones as well as the fact that not all words are straightforward phonetically. (Lets face it, nothing is phonetically straightforward in English or French reading , when compared to Italian or Russian, for example.  Unlike the grammar. I guess it's just the luck of the draw!)