Candy 4WAY Phonics is Phonics 4 Ways!

Phonemic Awareness is when your child has the ability to hear and utilize the individual and blended sounds inside spoken words. Phonemic Awareness is also when your child begins to understand that spoken words and spoken syllables are made up of threads of these sounds and blends.

How can your child develop Phonemic Awareness? To begin, whether or not your child has the ability to hear these spoken sounds is either within his genetic abilities or it is not. However, it has been my experience, after tutoring children in phonetic reading for over 25 years, that most children do have this ability.

So why is it that so many of our children today cannot read? The answer to this is simply that so many of our children have not received a systematic presentation of these sounds and blends within the framework of a proper linguistic, intensive 4way phonics program.

This is what happened to a little girl back in the 1950’s named Candy. Candy began her first grade reading instruction with her school’s new reading books: The famous Dick and Jane Series. In this series, children were not taught the individual phonemes or how to blend those phonemes from left to right. Consequently, many children who depended upon a system of organized learning to develop that phonemic knowledge experienced one heartbreaking attempt after another and eventually failed to learn to read.

Fortunately for Candy, she was judged by her teacher to be a “bad enough” reader that she qualified for a special reading program offered in another school building called intensive phonics. Candy’s new reading teacher presented this intensive phonics program to her using four strategies to teach her 158 phonemes and blends. As a result, just six months later, when Candy returned to her regular reading group, she discovered that she had gone from being the worst reader in her reading group to being the best reader in her reading group! 

Today, Candy can read every word on every page fluently. How did this happen?

Read Candy’s TRUE STORY at www.candy4wayphonics.com  and find out how YOUR child’s reading adventure can turn out to be just as successful as Candy’s!
In His Service,

Carol Kay,

President, Candy 4WAY Phonics Publications