Reading

I'm hitting a point where I don't know what to do.

Doodle is interested in reading. He LOVES reading. He knows his letters, their sounds, and we're working on sorting out the vowels. But how do I teach him to read a word.

We've been working on sight words, but I just don't know... it seems opposite to everyting else we've been doing. Suddenly I'm asking him to memorize words...

So now I'm researching a more phonetic approach and STILL just don't know if I know.