Why go to all the trouble of this look-say crap when you can easily teach a kid to read by simply showing him the letters and telling him their sound equivalents? Start at three or four years old and by the time the kid is six, he’ll be reading anything, and doing it fluently. His reading ability will lead to increased comprehension and snowball into an impressive wealth of knowledge by the time the look-say kids are just getting over their struggles with Dick and Jane.
We taught both of our children to read when they were three years old. We used the “Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons” book. That book was based entirely on letter sounds as well as letter-pair sounds.