teach a child to read with children's books?

Anyone use this? I stumbled across teach a child to read with children’s books… I can’t say I agree with everything in it, but I feel like the basic premise is good. It’s what I did with my oldest once we reached the end of my limited knowledge of phonics rules. It’s what I’m doing currently, and entirely unintentionally, with my 4yo using Bob books and my expanded phonics knowledge. I thought he was just reading them for fun, and Id explain phonics stuff as it came up, the stuff he hasn’t covered yet in his ‘real reading lessons’ (AAR). Now light bulbs are going off, that his real reading lessons are the variety of things I’m doing with those Bob books. How does this knowledge affect what I do with my daughter? That’s the big question. She is 7 and ‘hates reading’ or rather hates learning to read, she wants to be able to read. She is the only kid who I have tried teaching with a systematic, intensive phonics program. Partly cause I freaked out when she was so much later to be interested than the others. Partly because I was overwhelmed by all the options, everything is phonics! Phonics! Phonics. Partly I was overwhelmed by life.

TaCtRWCB has some very CM things about. Use real books, word building. Not the part where he encourages guessing, but that’s easy to skip.