Candy 4WAY Phonics is Phonics 4 Ways!

One of the main ideas for teaching children to read has always been about building reading fluency, the ability to read quickly, accurately, and with expression.    

The first fluency obstacle children need to overcome is their fear of sounding out a word, the whole word, from left to right. The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program builds children into words from a single letter into blends and on into multisyllable words. The second fluency obstacle children need to overcome is their fear of approaching isolated words out of context. The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program gives children one phonogram per lesson with plenty of practice blending that phonogram into words. Those words are found in lists that can be read from left to right, from top to bottom, even diagonally.  

But that’s not all.  The third fluency obstacle children need to overcome is taking words they can read in isolation and reading them fluently within real sentences.  

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program gives sentences as early as possible within its daily lessons.  Those sentences contain only words made up of parts that the child has either already mastered in previous lessons or practiced in the present lesson. 

In addition, the 4th strategy within 4WAY Phonics includes R’sA Phonics (Rhyme, Rhythm, and Alliteration).  R’sA Phonics gives children a reading atmosphere that is “fun.”  Just as a “spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,” children also learn best when they are offered “fun” words and phrases.  Words and phrases become “fun” when they are placed inside sentences with Rhyme, Rhythm, and Alliteration.   

Moreover, the sentences that children will encounter in their Candy 4WAY Phonics Daily Lessons include both simple and complex sentences, sentences containing connective and complex connective words, as well as dialogue and normal poetic selections so that children learn to build reading fluency while reading all forms of written expression.   

But wait!  There’s one more way the Candy 4WAY Phonics Program enables children to build reading fluency. The fourth fluency obstacle children need to overcome is taking words they can read in isolation and in sentences and reading them in actual stories. 

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program gives children (starting with the second level of the program) a Story Reader following after every five lessons. This is because we have heard again and again how much of a difference it makes to place sentences into stories within the timeframe of daily lessons. This is crucial because children need to know that the effort they have put forth in their daily phonics lessons is enabling them to read. 

With the Candy 4WAY Phonics sequenced, leveled Story Readers, children are regularly rewarded after every five lessons with a Candy Story Reader containing real story content — a reader in which children will never have to guess at words because each reader contains only letters and blends they have already mastered.

Parents, we can assure you that when children learn phonics the correct way, reading fluency is a necessary skill built right alongside the ability to sound out every word on every page. At Candy 4WAY Phonics we believe that’s important enough to offer parents everything they need in a phonics program at an affordable price.  

Check it out.  For just $9.97  you can purchase an INSTANT DOWNLOAD of the following Candy 4WAY Phonics items:

1)   An 82-page eBook entitled: How to Teach Candy’s Systematic 4WAY Phonics

2)  100 Daily 4WAY Phonics Lessons loaded with rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration for fun learning

3)  Candy Story Readers sequenced into the program (after every 5 Daily Phonics Lessons, your child can read a Candy Reader)

4)  Colored Alphabet Rhyming Phonics Charts with Multisensory Vowel Helps

5)  Colored Rhyming Alphabet Flashcards

6)  Colored Lifetime Rhyming Phonics Charts to give your child a lifetime of phonogram retention.

7)  Interwoven, daily Phonics Drill

  FREE e-mail coaching 

It’s simple!           It’s affordable!            It works! 

Sincerely,   

Carol Kay, President 

www.candy4wayphonics.com 

   

 

  

When I was eight years old, my mother decided that I needed to take piano lessons.  She signed me up, and I took lessons and played in recitals for seven years.  I had an excellent teacher, and I learned a great deal.

 

However, when I reached age 15, I decided that I really wanted to devote myself to the girl’s basketball team and to the school debate team.  Thus, I quit piano lessons — my mother was sooooo upset!  I didn’t touch another piano key until I was 30 years old. At that time our church needed a piano player, so  I signed up, once again, for piano lessons. 

 

I told my new piano teacher how “fantastic” I used to be.  She pulled out a large red book and said, “That’s great!  But you’ll need to start all over again with this book, ‘Teaching Little Fingers to Play.’ 

 

You see, I could remember many things from my childhood piano lessons, but I had also forgotten many things.  My new teacher knew that if I didn’t start all over again, I would have huge gaps in my piano education. 

 

So I began my music lessons all over again, but this time, I soared through the lessons.  Within one year I was back where I had left off at age 15. 

 

Teaching older children to read follows with this same logic.  I see so many websites devoted to teaching older children to read, but most of them completely skip the step that reads, “Your child will need to start again at the beginning.”  Starting over again with Lesson One is even more important to an older child who has been taught to read with the look/n/say method or with a guided reading program that mixes look/n/say with implicit, salt and pepper UNsystematic phonics. 

 

Have you ever seen an infected wound?  Can you even imagine what would happen if you put a band-aid over that wound without first cleaning it out and dressing it with the proper ointment?  Telling older children that they can learn to read using systematic phonics without also telling them that they will need to start over again is just like putting a band-aid over an infected wound!  All of the child’s reading problems will just grow and multiply and fester.  He will have large gaps in his reading education, and you won’t ever have a clue where those gaps are! 

 

THE GOOD NEWS IS THIS:  Start an older child over again using a systematic phonics program and you’ll be astonished at how quickly he picks everything up compared to a younger child.  Teaching an older child or an adult to read goes along so much faster than teaching a younger child to read.

 

Remember Marva Collins?  Marva used systematic phonics and she had ALL of her first graders and many of her kindergarteners reading by Christmas. Can you imagine how much faster those same lessons moved along for an older child?

 

At Candy 4WAY Phonics we believe that teaching a child to read shouldn’t cost parents a fortune.  This is why for just $9.97 you can change the direction of your older child’s life with our Systematic, COMPLETE 4WAY Phonics  Curriculum.

 

For just $9.97, you can teach your older student  how to read, all over again, except this time around, your child can receive step-by-step, systematic daily phonics lessons and sequenced readers following after every five lessons.

 

For just $9.97  your child can learn to read every word on every page. 

 

Check us out:  Candy 4WAY Phonics.

 

We claim to be The Best Phonics Bargain in Town, and we really are!

 

Sincerely,

 

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics

www.candy4wayphonics.com

 

 

 

DOES   YOUR   OLDER   CHILD   STRUGGLE   TO   READ?  

Very soon, before the end of this school year, thousands of American parents will discover that their little third, fourth, or fifth grader is struggling to read his school textbooks.

 

Moms, Dads, your older child does not have to join the ranks of the illiterate.   For less than $10 you can change the reading path of your child. If you, too, cannot read, you can learn to read every word on every page as you teach your child to do the same.

 

I realize that it is  quite possible that this is the first time you have become aware that your little guy or gal cannot read every word on every page. Sadly, many parents are in the same boat because they have been led to believe that based upon a normal bell curve, their child has been doing “just fine” in reading.

 

The only problem is, NOW,  your older child has made it into the third or fourth grade or higher and is self conscous and terribly humiliated because he is expected to read lessons from higher level textbooks, answer comprehension questions, and make total sense of the facts given in each paragraph.

 

Moms, Dads, did you know that it’s a fact that most American students today are learning to read using Look/n/Say, Whole Word methods, methods that are mixed with just enough phonics to make everyone believe that our students are learning to decode all the words on the page.

 

Unfortunately, what little phonics that has been presented in so many of our classrooms has given way whole-heartedly to the memorization of Whole Words printed on Word Walls and contained on the monotonous pages of easy-to-read I Can Read Books.

 

Moms, Dads, children cannot continue to memorize or guess every whole word on the page after they’ve reached the higher grades.  It just isn’t possible!

 

Our children should be able to sound out every word on every page. Learning to read should not be a big mystery box that is difficult to open, but that is exactly what our American public school classrooms have turned reading into.

 

Parents should be concerned about their child’s reading grades because, regrettably, only 70% of U.S. schoolchildren will actually graduate from high school.

 

It’s a well-researched but often heartrending fact that reading ability severely affects lifelong success?

 

At Candy 4WAY Phonics, we believe that children deserve to learn to read everything put in front of them so that they can move up to other necessary skills like comprehension and inferential thinking – lifelong skills that will give them jobs with an adequate income – lifelong skills that will move them into households far above the poverty level.

 

Isn’t that what you want, too!   Please, check us out!  When your child learns to read every word on every page you’ll be glad you did!

 

Sincerely,

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics

www.candy4wayphonics.com

 

 

Does your child moan and groan when it’s time to read? 

I’m only asking because according to the National Adult Literacy Survey:

42 million adult Americans can’t read.

50 million can recognize so few printed words they are limited to a 4th or 5th grade reading level.

One out of every four teenagers drops out of high school.

One out of four teens who DO remain in school and actually graduate have the equivalent or less of an eighth grade education.

 

And, you see, every one of those teens and adults should have learned to read fluently before they entered the fourth grade.

 

The federal government spends over ten billion dollars ($10,000,000,000) each year to fund more than 79 literacy-related programs administered by 14 federal agencies. Yet, our children are still guessing at words! 

Why do American children have such a horrible reading problem?

American children have a reading problem because the teaching of reading in American public schools is totally wrong and flies in the face of all logic and common sense.

 

What’s the answer?

Well, the ideal answer would be for American public schools to change their ways, but that’s probably not going to happen.

 

You see, that kind of change would require that our educational professionals (who for the past 80 years have been engaged in teaching children to do everything BUT sound out the words on the page) stop defending their teaching methods in reading.

 

Is there another answer? 

Yes, there certainly is, and it’s an answer that is Feasible, Affordable, and Reliable!

 

It’s an answer that enables Moms and Dads to take their children FAR beyond 4th grade level reading and to watch their children naturally progress into sounding out words at college level by the time their children graduate from high school. 

 

Does this sound too good to be true?

Well it’s not, and what we propose is soooooooo logical!

 

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program is Systematic 4WAY Phonics at it’s best.

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program includes everything parents need to give their children (and themselves) one-on-one, step-by-step training in phonetic (sounding out) reading.

 

Moms and Dads, your children could be learning to read every word on every page. 

For just $9.97 you can purchase an INSTANT DOWNLOAD of the following Candy 4WAY Phonics Items:

1   An 82-page eBook entitled: How to Teach Candy’s Systematic 4WAY Phonics

2  100 Daily 4WAY Phonics Lessons loaded with rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration for fun learning

3  Candy Story Readers sequenced into the program (after every 5 Daily Phonics Lessons, your child can read a Candy Reader)

4  Colored Alphabet Rhyming Phonics Charts with Multisensory Vowel Helps

5  Colored Rhyming Alphabet Flashcards

6  Colored Lifetime Rhyming Phonics Charts to give your child a lifetime of phonogram retention.

7  Interwoven, daily Phonics Drill

8  FREE e-mail coaching

 

It’s simple!           It’s affordable!            It works!

 

As my daughter jokingly says: “I’m gonna say this one more time, and then I’m gonna say it again!”

So here is what I’d like to say, “one more time“!

Moms and Dads, if we don’t do something to fix the reading problem among American School children, then over 1 million illiterate teens will quit school and continue to head for the streets every year! 

One of those teens DOES NOT have to be YOUR child! 

A child who learns to effortlessly sound out every word on every page does not moan and groan when it’s time to read!

Sincerely,

 

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics

www.candy4wayphonics.com

 

 

Your Child Can Struggle in Reading, but that Does Not Mean He Has a Learning Disability, or a Speech Problem, or Dyslexia, or ADHD or ADD!

This is because so many American reading problems are a direct result of teachers using the wrong reading method to teach reading!

For example, here are ten strategies provided to teachers for their Guided Reading programs:

1) Provide wait time

2) Give prompts or clues

3) Do a “picture walk” and help children “predict” what might happen in

the story.

4) Give encouragement such as: “Try that again.”

5) Ask questions such as: “Does that make sense?”

6) Ask questions such as: “What part of the word do you know?

7) Ask questions such as: “What does the word start with?”

Ask questions such as: “Have you ever seen a word that looks like that?

9) Ask questions such as: “Does the picture on the page give you a clue?

10) Allow everyone to “whisper” the entire book to themselves (use PVC whisper phones to help facilitate)

 

OH, MY GOODNESS! WHERE SHOULD I BEGIN?

 

Whenever I review these types of whole language “learning-to-read strategies,” I get more frustrated than an eBay recipient attempting to open a Priority Mail box where the easy-to-open pull strip has been taped over with layers and layers and layers of heavy-duty, two-inch-wide, clear tape.

 

Just like that Priority Mail box, learning to decode words should not be a tightly closed package children struggle to open.

 

It’s as if we desire to give kids everything they need to learn to read except what they really DO need: a step-by-step, proven, systematic 4WAY Phonics Program.

 

Our children should be able to sound out every word on every page. Learning to read should not be a big mystery box that is difficult to open, but that is exactly what our American public school classrooms have turned reading into.

 

Children should not have to do picture walks, guess at a word from its first letter, try to remember a word that looks like the word they’re presently staring at, or decide if their “guess” is correct depending upon whether a word makes sense in the sentence.

 

Children should be able to begin at the beginning of a word and sound out that word effortlessly, from left to right, all the way through to the end of the word. Children do not need all that other strategic, look-n-say, sight-reading hoopla to “figure out” what a word is. Children simply need step-by-step, easy-to-understand, daily training in systematic phonics.

 

Guessing at words is one aspect of whole language strategy. Whole language proponents (and that’s what guided reading advocates are) also claim that children need to learn to read “for meaning.” Therefore, their whole language methods encourage students to look for meaning in the text through different types of whole-language strategies.

 

What’s wrong with this? The dichotomy is between learning to read vs. reading to learn.

 

Certainly, it’s just common sense that students must learn to read every word on every page before they can learn to read for meaning. You can’t have one without the other, and learning to read always needs to come first.

 

So the question now is, “What do we mean by reading?“

 

You might say, “Well that’s a silly question.” However, with today’s Guided Reading techniques in full swing inside hundreds of thousands of American classrooms, “What do we mean by reading?” really is the big question.

 

And even though we’ve turned reading into a big question, the answer to learning to read is really an easy answer.

 

Reading is when a child can survive in a fast-paced, high-tech American classroom, look at a page of text, effortlessly sound out every word he encounters, gain a basic understanding of what he has read, be able to accurately draw conclusions from the facts given, and comprehensively make inferences from all the details specified.

 

A child who can read should have the ability to read selected text accurately, smoothly, effortlessly, and with appropriate expression and meaning.

 

The fact is that 28 major countries in the world have a higher literacy rate than the United States. In the United States, the total number of functionally illiterate adults increases by approximately 2.25 million every single year. Even more sad, 76 percent of high school students in Detroit schools flunked out this June while other cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and Houston produced dropout rates from 50 to 60 percent.

 

The bottom line is this, if we don’t do something to fix the reading rate of American children, then 1.2 million illiterate teens will continue to hit American streets each year.

 

Moms, Dads, your child does not have to join these statistics. For less than $10 you can change the reading path of your child. If you, too, cannot read, you can learn to read every word on every page as you teach your child to do the same.

 

Please check us out – Candy 4WAY Phonics. It’s a simple, affordable program that can change what “reading” is all about.

Sincerely,

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics

 

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOUR CHILD IS GETTING PHONICS?  

If you’re talking about explicit, systematic phonics, your child is NOT getting it if he attends an American public school.

You see, American public school teachers do not receive explicit, systematic phonics training in any of their college classes.

Even those very few teachers who were personally raised with explicit, systematic phonics instruction rarely use systematic phonics in the classroom because: Today, the concept of Guided Reading is a featured technique in nearly every elementary school in America.  (Open Education, Fountas and Pinnell)

Now if you’re talking about implicit, watered-down, look-n-say whole-word “phonics,” your child is getting that if he attends an American public school. And that is precisely why so many of our children cannot easily sound out every word on every page.

Having the ability to sound out every word on every page is an especially vital skill because a child’s reading ability will most assuredly affect his lifelong success?

We know this because the surveys tell us that approximately 48 out of every 100 American households are living below the poverty level because the breadwinners in those households cannot read?

IS THERE A SOLUTION?

There sure is!

 

Is it possible for Parents to know for sure that their child is getting the right kind of phonics?

It certainly is!

 

At Candy 4WAY Phonics, we believe that children deserve to learn to read everything put in front of them so that they can move up to other necessary skills like comprehension and inferential thinking – lifelong skills that will give them jobs with an adequate income – lifelong skills that will move them into households far above the poverty level.

While it may be true that almost HALF of American adults grew up as children who struggled in reading, YOUR child doesn’t have to join that statistic.

 

Parents, you can teach your own children to read using a correct, systematic 4WAY Phonetic system, a system that includes daily, easy-to-follow step-by-step lessons, step-by-step rhyming phonics charts, sequenced phonics story readers, rhyming flashcards

– a SYSTEM THAT INCLUDES AN ENTIRE 4WAY PHONICS PROGRAM

 

– a SYSTEM THAT WILL COST YOU just $9.97

 

– a SYSTEM THAT INCLUDES FREE EMAIL COACHING

 

– a SYSTEM THAT WILL TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ OVER 30,000 WORDS AND MORE

 

– a SYSTEM THAT WILL TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ EVERY WORD ON EVERY PAGE!

Moms, Dads, your child CAN learn to read!

Sincerely,

Carol Kay, President
Candy 4WAY Phonics
www.candy4wayphonics.com

 

ANOTHER TRUE STORY FROM CANDY 4WAY PHONICS!

 

Mrs. Woods was a skilled music teacher and, fortunately, she taught elementary music appreciation during a segment of American history when public schools could still afford to teach the subject of music.

 

Traveling from class to class, Mrs. Woods toted music scores, recordings, and lecture notes to each classroom of children, first through the fifth grade. 

 

It was during our fifth grade school year that Mrs. Woods decided that our class needed to become familiar with major classical music selections. 

 

Because she knew that a special Christmas orchestral presentation of The Nutcracker Sweet would soon be arriving to our downtown music theater, Mrs. Woods used our classroom time to teach us how to recognize certain movements within The Nutcracker Sweet as well as its opening overture and final finish. Our favorite movements were The Russian Dance, The Waltz of the Flowers, and The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. 

 

After Mrs. Woods was positive that our ears were trained to recognize all of the necessary elements of this Tchaikovsky fairy tale ballet, she arranged for our class to attend the professional orchestral presentation of The Nutcracker Sweet.  

 

Even though we were only in the fifth grade and even though there was no stage ballet dance performance to keep us entertained, because we knew the opening and closing notes of the ballet, because we had mastered the storyline, and because we knew what to listen for in order to tell when a new movement had arrived, we all sat back and thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated the entire orchestral presentation of this Christmas “Nutcracker” Music Special. 

 

DID YOU KNOW THAT learning how to sound out every word on every page is very much like learning how to recognize all the essentials of a classical music selection?

 

You see, just as a proper classical music curriculum teaches children what to “listen for,” a Systematic 4WAY Phonics reading curriculum teaches children what to “look for.”

 

Just as classical music instruction trains students to recognize beginning, middle and ending movements within an orchestral selection, Systematic 4WAY Phonics instruction trains students to recognize beginning, middle, and ending letter and phonogram sounds within words. 

 

Just as classical music students learn to listen through Tchaikovsky’s fairy tale ballet by studying it’s beginning movements all the way through to its center movements and on through to the end of the ballet, Systematic 4WAY Phonics students learn to read through a word  by blending its beginning sounds all the way through to its center phonograms and on through to the end of the word.

 

Tchaikovsky’s students do not begin in the middle of The Nutcracker Sweet, nor do they begin at the end of The Nutcracker Sweet.  They begin a symphony by listening to its opening overture.  Systematic 4WAY Phonics students do not begin in the middle of words, nor do they begin at the end of words.  They begin a word by reading its beginning letter sounds. 

 

Our fifth grade class learned all about The Nutcracker Sweet from beginning to end through daily lessons taking just one step at a time.  We did not go on to one lesson until we had mastered the lesson before. 

 

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program takes children from age 4 through Grade 4 from beginning to end through 4WAY Phonics Daily Lessons, taking just one step at a time.  Students do not go on to one lesson until they have mastered the lesson before.  

 

Mrs. Woods was a skilled music teacher and, fortunately, she taught elementary music classes during a segment of American history when music appreciation classes were an affordable school subject.

 

Homeschooling Moms and Dads are caring teachers who, fortunately, are able to teach a Systematic 4WAY Phonics program during a segment of American history when Candy 4WAY Phonics is affordable for all parents. 

 

Systematic 4WAY Phonics is that same 4WAY Phonics reading approach that taught a little girl named, Candy, how to sound out every word on every page. 

 

You won’t want to miss reading Candy’s TRUE STORY!

 

Sincerely,

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics

 

QUESTION:  Isn’t it customary that during the preschool years children should be concentrating on having fun and learning social skills? 

 

ANSWER:  Of course it is.  We can use segments of a preschooler’s day to engage them in acting out drama as well as learning to cooperate, take turns, and follow instructions.  We can teach them to paint pictures at an easel, mix colors and learn geometric shapes, size relationships, and the basics about gravity. 

 

QUESTION:  Is that all we should teach Preschoolers?

 

ANSWER:  Goodness gracious, no!  We can also enable our little preschoolers to learn to sound out words. 

 

After all, why shouldn’t preschoolers have EVERY educational opportunity!

 

Without a doubt, children as young as 3 years of age can also be trained in phonemic awareness skills such as those basic letter sounds found on the 31 A to Z Phonics Multisensory Wall Cards from  Candy 4WAY Phonics Multisensory.  (Click here to see samples).

 

Moreover, children as young as 4 years of age can actually be taught to sound out words by following the Candy’s 4WAY Phonics Step-by-step Systematic 4WAY Phonics Preschool Program.  (Click here to read more details.)

 

For example, have you ever heard the true story of little Shannie?

 

Shannie had just reached her 4th birthday! 

She was standing with her family at the entrance to her father’s favorite restaurant waiting to be seated when little Shannie spotted the restaurant sign set up just in front of the cashier.

 

The sign read: “Please Wait to be Seated!”

 

Out loud, Shannie began the process of sounding out the words:

 

“pl —– ee -z / w — ā —t /tü/bee/see—ted.”

 

Suddenly, with tremendous enthusiasm, Shannie turned to her mother and exclaimed,

 

“Mommy, that sign says that we should wait to be seated!”

 

Others standing around her couldn’t help but notice.

 

After all, we’re talking about a 4 year old little girl who could sound out words, words that are not normally presented to a child until the last part of first grade.

 

Other mothers paused to ask Shannie’s mother, “How does she know how to do that?”

 

Shannie’s mother told them all about the Candy 4WAY Phonics Preschooler’s Package, a simple, parent-friendly 4WAY Phonics system, that same 4WAY Phonics system used to teach a little girl named Candy, back in the 1950’s, how to read.

 

Shannie’s mother continued on to explain that for just $7.97, their child could also learn to sound out words, even at the young age of 4 years old, if their child was taught to read by their mother, using a step-by-step 4WAY Phonics system of reading, while snuggled up together on their living room couch with MOM for just 20 minutes a day and 10 minutes more just before bedtime.

 

You see, that’s all the time it takes to enable a preschooler to learn to sound out words.  It’s a very simple FOUR STEP FORMULA for enabling a child to be able to read every word on every page.  Those 4 INGREDIENTS ARE:

1)    A proven 4WAY Systematic Phonics reading method

2)    Mixed into an affordable, (just $7.97) step-by-step Daily 4WAY Phonics Lessons, Phonics Charts, and Multisensory Flashcards and Wallcards

3)    Stir in one loving, caring, and teachable Mommy

4)    Produces one child who learns to sound out words!

 

Naturally, all loving parents want their little preschooler to have fun coloring and painting and learning all the social graces.  However, loving parents can also enable their preschool children with the ability to sound out words.

 

The next time you go to your favorite family restaurant, wouldn’t you be delighted to see your little guy or gal sound out the words on the sign next to the cash register?  

 

Check it out: Candy’s 4WAY Phonics Preschool Package

Sincerely, Carol Kay, President

Candy4WAY Phonics

 

  

Folks, do you personally know even just one of the 11 million adults in this nation that cannot read the English language? 

 

I’m asking you this because if you DO know of an adult who cannot read or an adult who struggles to read, this means that they do not have the skills they need to handle many everyday life tasks such as reading menus or grocery boxes, enjoying magazine articles or good books, understanding a bus schedule or the directions on a prescription label.

 

What I find appalling, however, is the fact that there are no reports indicating that adult literacy has risen in the United States since the last report published in 2003 stating that “the proportion of adults with high literacy skills fell from 20 percent in 1994 down to 14 percent.”

 

Folks, that’s just disgusting! After all, we live in the United States of America!  We pour billions of dollars every year into our educational programs, and for what?  So that 11 million adults in our nation can continue to NOT READ??? 

 

So that 11 million adults in our nation can continue to feel “dumb,” when in reality, they are probably brilliant???

 

If you are one of these adults and someone is reading this article to you, did you know that adults who DO have the ability to read made an average yearly salary of $50,700 in 2003, and that those same statistics tell us that those lucky folks made approximately $28,000 more than you made that same year – simply because they could read and you couldn’t?

 

Are you getting bothered yet?  Are you getting bothered enough to do something about it? 

 

I HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR YOU!        

IF YOU CAN’T READ, YOU CAN TEACH YOURSELF TO READ!

 

You can teach yourself, at your own dining room table, how to sound out every word on every page!    

 

If you have a computer with a CD-Rom drive and audio capabilities, then for just $19.97 you can buy a CD-Rom program from Candy 4WAY Phonics  that employs the same 4WAY Phonics Method  that was used to teach a little girl named Candy how to read back in the 1950’s.  It will take you step-by-step through 100 daily phonics lessons until you can sound out every word on every page. 

 

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program will start you out with basic letter sounds and carry you all the way through every blend, every phonogram, every sight word until you’ve lost all of your fear of reading.  You see,  Candy 4WAY Phonics is NOT more of the same “reading drudgery” that you’ve already had. 

 

As an adult, you probably went through a school system that taught you to read by memorizing whole words placed on word walls or found in books that repeated the same words over and over and over and over again.  At Candy 4WAY Phonics we believe this type of reading approach is hogwash!  

 

Reading should begin with learning the basic alphabet sounds and learning to blend those sounds together from left to right. After you’ve learned all the sounds of the letters and after you’ve spent time with the 100 Daily Phonics Lessons learning to blend those sounds together within words, then you will no longer be afraid to approach new words, because you’ll be able to sound out all the words you come to from left to right even if you’ve never seen the words before. 

 

With Candy 4WAY Phonics you will learn to do that one step at a time, one lesson at a time, until you’ve learned all the sounds and all the blends that make up all words.

  

In addition, with the  The Candy 4WAY Phonics CD-Rom Program  you won’t have to guess at what the letters and blends sound like, because you’ll be able to hear all of them read aloud on every Daily 4WAY Phonics Lesson.  You might need a little help to read the directions that come with the program, just to get yourself started, but after that, you’ll be able to actually hear every word and every blend, and every sentence read aloud on every page of the 100 daily phonics lessons – eliminating all the guesswork about what the letters and blends are supposed to sound like. 

 

Please, don’t spend the rest of your life not knowing how to read.  When you’re finished with The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program, you will not only know how to read, but after practicing your reading for a couple of years after that, you’ll be able to read better than most of the people you know. 

 

Sincerely,

Carol Kay, President
Candy 4WAY Phonics

 

How are Candy 4WAY Phonics Readers different from the readers in other phonics programs? 

Candy 4WAY Phonics Readers are different from other story readers in five BIG ways:

1) Letter sounds and blends contained on the pages of each reader are learned by the child BEFORE he reads the story.

2) Candy Story Readers are sequenced INTO the Candy 4WAY Daily Phonics Lessons.  Beginning with Level Two of the program, children are given a story reader to enjoy following after every five daily phonics lessons.

3) Rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration, a key element of many of our story readers, makes learning to read more fun!

4) Small stories build into longer stories as children move on to read sentences containing connective words and complex connective words (subordinate clauses, infinitive phrases, and participial phrases.)   Therefore, our story readers, unlike other phonics programs, progress from six pages up to twenty-nine pages depending upon where a child is in his daily phonics lessons. 

5) Sentences containing varied connective-word sentence openers introduce children to higher level reading abilities (fourth grade reading level and well beyond).  We do this because it has clearly been demonstrated that when children DO receive these types of complex sentence structures, they are better able  to express complex ideas, to paint word pictures, and to convey complex relationships.

Check out our webpage and skim through our story reader samples!

Sincerely,  Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics