Finding CVC reading books

Don't you mean 'its', Gracesmum? (fellow pedant observation )

Typo time - "of" as opposed to "pf"!

All our children could read before they went to school and enjoyed it They are still avid readers. I know there are "systems," but surely if a child is interested in a story and shows a desire to read, parents should not wait until the "professionals" deem it the right time?
The thing that bothers me about synthetic phonics (and I am happy to be corrected if I have got the wrong idea) is that children are taught to deal with groups of letters not necessarily words which equal concepts. Given that English, unlike, say German, is not a language where groups pf letters consistently and logically sound the same I woud find this confusing. I don't want to start the whole pronunciation debate again , but there are so many examples that a bright shild could easily misread a word by analogy with a very similar word (s)he knows,"storm and "strom" being examples quoted in a recent radio programme. PS what is or are "satpin"?
As an ex-teacher I am wary of "leaving it to the professionals" - I think parental input and that includes grandparental input should be encouraged at all times.
PS -Pedant alert "it's"

Please don't try to teach him to read. There is a system. It's not based on the way we learned e.g. the first letter sounds learned are satpin. There is far more to reading than just phonics even though the government like to think there isn't. It's much better to encourage him to enjoy books in general. Stories and non fiction. Anything that he's interested in. Learning to read is just a skill. Enjoying books is a gift.

Let him join the local library and choose a couple of books every week. The more he sees print the more he'll understand how it works. Also it's really important to talk about the story and the illustrations. Not just what he can see but what he thinks is happening and what will happen next. If someone is looking sad/happy etc ask him why they look that way. How would he feel if that had happened to him?

You are invaluable because you have the time to stretch him....to make him think and to ask/answer questions....to foster a love of reading for it's own sake rather than as a means to an end.

Humbertbear He will begin to learn to read once he starts school,and his teacher may not thank you for anything formal that you do before that. You would be best to play lots of games with him which involve looking carefully at things and noticing small differences, matching shapes and sizes and putting things into matching sets. Things like sorting buttons give him a feel for what is the same and what is not. Read lots of stories to him so that he enjoys what he hears frombooks.

Sorry if that sounds like preaching to the converted - that was not the intent.

The school will have appropriate materials for learning to read. He will learn at his own pace.