Hi all, my son is now 3.5 yrs old, in Nursery 2 level. Since he was 2, I started teaching him word recognition using self-made word cards. He can recognise a good number of words but I never keep track of how many words he really can recognise. Recently he has shown great interest in wanting to read on his own & I’m currently using the Ladybird Peter and Jane Keywords books to help him to learn to read (now on Book 2a). However, I’m starting to worry that I may not be teaching him well enough as whenever I read to him books other than Peter and Jane Keywords, he will point out words and keep asking me how to read the words.

In school he has started learning the basics of phonics but the school will not be teaching blending words till K1 level. I’m at a loss when it comes to phonics as I have no idea how to teach that.
I’m now wondering if I should enrol my son in phonics/reading programme to help him maintain or enhance his interest in reading on his own. I’m not very keen to enrol him in enrichment classes as he’s already going to school but seeing his great interest in trying to read and my limited ability to teach him to read is just making me all confused.
Hope to get advice on whether I should continue teaching on my own based on word recognition technique (as this is the only way I know how to teach him) or enrol him in phonics/reading classes?
For phonics/reading classes, any advice on which is good - eg: LCentral, I Can Read, etc. Thank you in advance!