Having completed ‘Stage 1′ of the phonics lessons, which is on 3 letter words, I intend to move on to the next stage. These are basically word starting with or ending with, for eg, ‘th’, ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘wh’, etc…
In fact, after my K1 boy has completed the 3 letter words, he has been asking me if there are some more. When I told him yes, he kept reminding me to make them, so when I finally got down to printing and laminating it, he was very excited and offered to help.
When I was cutting it, he also wanted to help so that it can be completed quickly. I was very delighted with his enthusiasm and pray that it will continue.
Once it’s all ready, I was wondering how should I start. And I remember that some of the words are available at starfall.com so I feel that he should start there since it is more interactive (at the same time I can learn how they teach…heehee…)
Since I have completed the cards, he has been bringing the cards to me every night to remind me to go through with him. So hopefully with a little more discipline on my side, we will get through this in a comfortable time.
Learning the technique is very important, and it will help the kid to quickly learn new words rather than memorizing the word. There will be some words that they have to learn by sight, but a basic skill of learning to read phonically is important. Well, that is what I feel anyway. And not everyone may agree because different people teach in different ways. As long as the end result is the same, everyone is right 
Meanwhile, he is also bringing the 基础汉字500 to me daily to read, perhaps for a little different reason 
