first words writing

M is reading any letter she finds everywhere (books, cereal boxes, sign posts, posters etc). She can say the letters but can't put them together to make up a word. Weird how English nurseries/schools teach reading with the phonetic method when English is not a phonetic language... it must be good at something, but I found that for the majority of the words it doesn't work, so doesn't it only create more confusion??? As I had to do it learning to read and write in English, M. will have to memorize how to write English words, that's all. With Italian instead is all too simple. Italian is a phonetic language so that she can read the letters as I taught her through the sand paper letters, once she knows the sound of a letter, that will always be it, no metter which combination of letters.
Useless to try and separate reading from writing, because it is resonable to think that the two go hand in hand!
Previously we have used the magnetic letters and some props to find the first letter of a object. Now we are building the whole world sound by sound, starting from simple and short words.