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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 go through junior high and high school missing key points in his lessons because he misreads words in his textbooks.  For less than $10 you can change the reading success of your child.  

 

Unfortunately for many parents, and through no fault of their own, this is the first they have come to realize that their little guy or gal cannot read every word on every page. Many parents are in this 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. 

 

So many children memorize just enough sight words to convince their teachers and their parents that they can fluently read.  Sadly, however, hundreds of thousands of older children every year have finally reached the place where there are just too many whole words for them to remember.  Moreover, because they have not been taught how to sound out and blend together all the phonograms inside words, they do not have the skills to sound out every word on every page. 

  

Being capable of sounding out every word on every page is a grave problem, because when older children make it into the third, fourth, or fifth grade and they find themselves stumbling to read words, they become self conscious, and, oftentimes, terribly humiliated, because they are expected to read lessons from higher level textbooks, answer comprehension questions, and make total sense of the facts given in their lessons. 

 

Moms, Dads, did you know that it’s a fact that most American students today are not learning systematic, explicit phonics?   Instead, our children are learning to read using Look/n/Say, Whole Word methods, methods that are mixed with just enough implicit phonics to make everyone believe that they are learning to decode words.

 

Unfortunately, the little bit of implicit 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 then filtered into 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 children struggle to open; however, 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 adequate incomes – 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, we know you’ll be glad you did!

 

Sincerely,

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics

www.candy4wayphonics.com

 

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