Candy 4WAY Phonics is Phonics 4 Ways!

 

You can spend $300 or you can spend just $9.97 and receive a COMPLETE Systematic Phonics Curriculum!  The choice is yours.

We can assure you, with the Candy 4WAY Phonics COMPLETE Curriculum, you will receive waaaaay more than you paid for.

 

You see, nothing touches my heart more than a child who is struggling to read, especially when I know there is a solution.  What is that solution? 

To answer that question, we need to go back to the year 1956, when a little first-grade girl named, Candy, struggled to read.

It was so sad, because Candy had entered her first grade school year with high hopes of learning to read only to have her hopes squashed and her self-image crushed.

However, Candy’s true story doesn’t end there because not only did little Candy receive the reading help she so desperately needed, but in just six months, because of the reading instruction she received, Candy went from being the worst reader in her class to being the best reader in her class as a direct result of her phonics instruction.

 

Today, Candy can read every word on every page of every book placed in front of her!

 

You can purchase that same 4WAY Phonics Curriculum that taught little Candy to read.

It’s a COMPLETE Systematic Phonics Curriculum.

It’s Affordable for Everyone!

It’s a Thorough Intensive Phonics Curriculum!

It Comes With the Highest customer Reviews!

It Works!   

 

Look what you will receive in download, printable format for just $9.97: 

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

2)  100 Daily, step-by-step 4WAY Phonics Lessons loaded with fun rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration

3)  Candy Sequenced Story Readers interwoven into the daily lessons 

4)  Colored Alphabet Rhyming Phonics Charts with Multisensory Vowel Helps

5)  Colored Rhyming Alphabet Flashcards (with basic and advanced blending practice)

6)  Spelling rules built into the lessons

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

  Continuous Daily Phonics Drill

 FREE e-mail coaching from the president of Candy 4WAY Phonics

 

Check it out.  We truly believe we’re The Best Phonics Bargain in Town!

Sincerely,  

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics

www.candy4wayphonics.com

 

HOMESCHOOL PHONICS CURRICULUM REVIEWS

FOR CANDY 4WAY PHONICS 

 

WHERE DID CANDY 4WAY PHONICS COME FROM? 

BACK IN THE YEAR 1956, a little first-grade girl named, Candy, struggled to read.  It was so sad!!!  That year, Candy had entered first grade with such high hopes of learning to read only to have her hopes squashed and her self-image poured down the drain.

However, thank the good Lord, that wasn’t the end of this TRUE story, because Candy received the phonics help she needed, and in just six months, Candy went from being the worst reader in her class to being the best reader in her class. 

Today, Candy can read every word on every page of every book placed in front of her. 

 

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REVIEW:  “I just wanted to thank you for the Candy 4 Way Phonics Program. My 8-year old daughter was really struggling with reading, and after buying at least 5 different phonics and reading programs, I was getting as confused as she was about phonics! I found your website and the price was what prompted me to try it. I bought the download, printed it and started her and her younger sister on Candy 4 Way Phonics. I can only say Thank you! Thank you! Thank You! This is finally making sense for all of us, even to this homeschooling mom! My daughter went from being reluctant about reading and guessing words to sounding them out. It makes sense to her. I praise the Lord for guiding me to your site.”
~Lisa L

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SO WHAT WAS THE SECRET TO LITTLE CANDY’S READING  SUCCESS?

The answer for Candy’s reading struggles came when Candy was sent away to a little white cottage behind her school to receive extra help in reading.  Let me stop here and explain.

You see, when Candy was in her regular reading group at school, her reading lessons had come from a new sight-reading series bought by her school that year called: The Dick and Jane Series.  Like so many thousands upon thousands of children since that time who have been trained to read using look/say sight reading techniques, Candy soon discovered that memorizing whole words was very, very difficult.  This is because children only have a capacity for memorizing about 2,000 whole words, and then their little brains just get exhausted. 

However, because Candy was such a horrible reader, she qualified for extra reading help, and that help came in the form of Systematic Phonics using three different phonics approaches:  Synthetic, Linguistic, and Analytic.  At the little white cottage, just six months later, after using this 3WAY Phonics approach, little Candy went from being the worst reader in her class to being the best reader in her class. 

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REVIEW:  “I purchased The Candy4Way Phonics Program July 4, 2010. It costs less than $10.00 and is a very good intensive phonics program.” 

(Taken from the Education Page of Don Potter)
~Don Potter, Head of The Potter’s School – providing globally accessible on-line courses.  

http://donpotter.net/education_pages/

 

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WHAT IS OUR INCENTIVE TO SELL SUCH AFFORDABLE PRODUCTS? 

Our incentive is simply that we want children to learn to read every word on every page.  It truly is a pleasure to serve you and your children’s needs!  It is a delight to have the opportunity to convince you that your child doesn’t have to struggle in reading!

 

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REVIEW:  “Candy’s 4Way Phonics is a systematic curriculum that takes the student from basic letter sounds through reading mastery. . .The author does an excellent job of laying the foundation of why you should teach phonics in this format, and then explaining how to implement the program. . .This is a very affordable program, and if implemented consistently, according to instructions, will grow your child into a proficient reader, ready to tackle any word they encounter.”

(Taken from the Phonics/Reading Reviews page of Homeschooling From the Heart’s website) 

http://homeschoolingfromtheheart.com/hsreviews/phonics/index.html

 

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WHO BUYS CANDY 4WAY PHONICS PRODUCTS?    

We are delighted to report that our affordable 4WAY Phonics products have satisfied many customers from all over the United States:  teachers, homeschoolers, and parents both with younger children just beginning their reading adventure and with older children who have struggled in reading or just need to catch up on the phonograms they never learned. 

We have also received excellent feedback and wonderful conversations about our INSTANT DOWNLOADS from homeschoolers and teachers in places as far away as Jamaica, Great Britain, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Guatemala, The Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, The United Kingdom, Indonesia and many more.  

 

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REVIEW:  “We are using the Candy 4WAY Phonics Program. As a result, our oldest daughter, Hallie, 7 years old, is reading. Collin, 4 years old, is beginning to read, and now even Ethen, 3 years old, can pronounce the sound of every letter in the alphabet correctly. Try it, use it, it works!”
~Joseph H        

 

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SO HOW DOES ALLTHIS HELP THE CHILDREN OF AMERICA TODAY?  

Today, that same phonics system that taught little Candy to read back in 1956 is available for purchase, except that it has been upgraded for today’s generation of children.  Moreover, Candy’s 3WAY Phonics approach has now become a 4WAY Phonics approach with the addition of Rs’A Phonics:  rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration.

 

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REVIEW:  “I am a grandmother who watches two of my grandsons each day. The oldest one is now in school. I was able to purchase the Candy 4WAY Phonics Program, and I cannot begin to tell you the difference it’s made with our oldest grandson. It’s so easy to use. You simply begin with the first rhyming alphabet chart and keep going. The key for us was not allowing our grandson to go on to one lesson until he had mastered the lesson before it. This sounds simple, but it was. The program makes it simple. He also wasn’t overwhelmed with Sight Words, because there are so few Sight Words in the program. He liked the flashcard charts, and he so much looked forward to the readers! The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program is (Grandma) friendly! The price for the program is a steal for what you get. In fact, it’s unbelievable, and we will be able to print everything we’ll need for all the rest of our grandchildren as well.”

~Grandma B 

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HOW MUCH WILL THIS 4WAY PHONICS CURRICULUM COST ME

AND WHAT DOES IT INCLUDE?  

We are delighted to offer the Candy 4WAY Phonics Curriculum, a COMPLETE Systematic, Intensive, Synthetic, Phonics First Curriculum in one of three affordable packages: 

1)    the Candy 4WAY Phonics INSTANT DOWNLOAD Curriculum for just $9.97.

2)    the Candy 4WAY Phonics CD-Rom Curriculum which includes everything in the INSTANT DOWNLOAD Curriculum  in addition to an audio CD-Rom in which parents and teachers can hear every word and every sentence and every paragraph read aloud in every daily phonics lesson, eliminating all the guesswork for just $19.97.

3)    the Candy 4WAY Phonics PLUS Package which includes everything in the INSTANT DOWNLOAD Curriculum as well as printed phonics lessons, printed Rhyming Lifetime Phonics Charts and an audio CD-Rom in which parents and teachers can hear every word and every sentence and every paragraph read aloud in every daily phonics lessons, eliminating all the guesswork for just $99.97. 

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WHAT WILL I GET FOR MY MONEY?    

Every package above includes all of the following:   

• An 82-page eBook entitled How to Teach Candy’s Systematic 4WAY Phonics
• An easy-to-understand “How to Follow this Program” guide.
• 100 4WAY Phonics daily, fun lessons (packed with rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration)
• Sequenced Candy Story Readers
• Rhyming Alphabet Charts with Multisensory Vowel Helps
• Rhyming Alphabet Flashcards
• 10 Lifetime Rhyming Phonics Charts
• Sequenced Phonics Drill
• Pronunciation Keys (even for the very, very, very, limited set of sight words)
• Free Email Coaching from the President of Candy 4WAY Phonics
• and so much more!!! 

Parents – no matter what your child’s age, he/she does not need to struggle in reading.  This is a fun to use, step-by-step, easy-to-understand 4WAY Phonics curriculum, and it works! It will carry a child from Age 4 all the way through to a Grade 4 reading level and higher. 

 

Whether you make a purchase or not, we are available for FREE email coaching for your reading/phonics questions.  May God richly bless all your teaching efforts!

 

Sincerely,

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics

www.candy4wayphonics.com 

P.S. Be sure and check out our other soooooooooo affordable phonics games and products. 

Hi, I’m Carol Kay, the President of Candy 4WAY Phonics.

I’ve had the joy of teaching intensive, synthetic, systematic 4WAY Phonics for over 28 years in school classrooms, in homes, in my kitchen, in libraries, in coffee shops, on front steps, in driveways and ANYWHERE else that I could find a child who is struggling in reading.

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Curriculum is based upon that same 4WAY Phonics method that taught a little girl named Candy how to read back in 1956. Candy’s true story began with sadness but ended with the utmost relief and joy, because thanks to a 4WAY Systematic Phonics First approach, Candy learned how to read every word on every page for the rest of her life. 

 

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Curriculum is based solidly upon that same phonics that taught little Candy to read, except that Candy 4WAY Phonics has been updated for today’s generation of parents and children and made completely affordable, just $9.97 in INSTANT DOWNLOAD format. 

Candy 4WAY Phonics incorporates 4 phonics approaches: synthetic, linguistic, analytic, and R’sA (rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration). It’s a COMPLETE Phonics First Curriculum, it’s fun, it’s step by step, and it carries a child from Age 4 all the way through a Grade 4 reading level and higher! 

 

IT’S AFFORDABLE!        IT’S STEP-BY-STEP, EASY TO USE!        IT WORKS!

 

Look what you will receive in download, printable format for just $9.97:

 

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

2)  100 Daily, step-by-step 4WAY Phonics Lessons loaded with fun rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration

3)  Candy Sequenced Story Readers interwoven into the daily lessons 

4)  Colored Alphabet Rhyming Phonics Charts with Multisensory Vowel Helps

5)  Colored Rhyming Alphabet Flashcards (with basic and advanced blending practice)

6)  Spelling rules built into the lessons

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

  Continuous Daily Phonics Drill

 FREE e-mail coaching from the president of Candy 4WAY Phonics

 

Nothing touches my heart more than a child who is struggling to read, especially when I know there is a solution. It’s true that some children do suffer from learning disabilities, but according to evidence from the National Reading Panel’s Meta-Analysis as reported by the American Educational Research Association, one-on-one tutoring in systematic phonics instruction produces the BEST READING RESULTS among beginning readers as well as low and middle SES readers and younger and older RD students. Of course, little Candy, now all grown up, has known that for 51 years.

In addition, the Meta-Analysis proved that systematic phonics produced lasting benefits for all these student types not only in their abilities to sound out words, but also in their comprehension and spelling abilities.

The Candy 4WAY Phonics goal, therefore, is this: To Help Parents to Teach Their Children to Read!

If you’ve read the true story of little Candy, you’ll see that, fortunately, little Candy was a poor enough reader that she qualified for 4WAY Phonics help. However, this is NOT the story of hundreds of thousands of school-aged children today. Our schools do not offer systematic 4WAY Phonics. In fact, the phonics offered in our schools today is NOT explicit systematic phonics. It is implicit, embedded phonics sprinkled in tiny amounts on top of large servings of look/say reading.

Parents, Candy 4WAY Phonics was specifically written for Moms and Dads. We would love to help YOU to help YOUR child to read.

So, whether you make a purchase or not, please do not hesitate to use our FREE email coaching. Email coaching works when parents remember that:

NO QUESTION IS DUMB! ALL QUESTIONS ARE SMART!

Each question we receive is a valued question, and you will be speaking directly with me, Carol Kay, President of Candy 4WAY Phonics —– 

and a very, very close friend of Candy.

Sincerely,

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

 

 

ONCE A CHILD LEARNS TO READ, he can learn anything he needs to know.  So when a homeschool mom or dad looks for a phonics curriculum, they’re usually looking for a phonics curriculum that:  

1)    really and truly works

2)    uses a method with long-lasting, life-long results

3)    carries a child from preschool phonics all the way through 4^th grade reading level and higher

4)    enables parents who have never learned phonics to teach phonics to their own child

5)    includes both lessons and readers

6)    is affordable

7)    is easy to teach

    is fun for a child to learn on a daily basis

9)    is easy to purchase

10) includes great customer reviews

 

 

Are all phonics programs the same?  Absolutely not! So how would a parent know if a reading program works?  What should that reading program do?

 

A good reading program should be based upon systematic phonics, and it should enable a child to learn to sound out every word on every page. A good reading program should not leave a child guessing at words or feeling as if his reading lessons are daily, large, dreaded mystery boxes that are painful to open.   

 

Are there different phonics methods presented in different phonics curriculums?   

Oh yes!  What’s more, the way in which children initially learn to approach words can make a world of difference later as they approach more and more multi-syllable and complex words and sentence structures. 

There are basically four phonics approaches on the market.  Candy 4WAY Phonics has chosen #4 below for some very good reasons.   

1. Word Family Approach

Children are taught to read beginning with linguistic phonics.  Linguistic phonics teaches word-family endings and then changes the beginning consonant sounds at the beginning of those endings to form three-letter words.  For example, the children will learn the sound of -at and then they will practice several -at words such as bat, cat, sat, and pat.  However, this method skips vital synthetic phonics instruction, it skips teaching a proper left-right reading sequence, and it skips teaching children how to distinctly differentiate between the vowel sounds.   It places all of its emphases on groups of letters contained at the end of words.   

With the Word Family Approach, a child hears the word pronounced in a left to right order, but he “sees” the word from an incorrect right to left order.  This can later cause confusion when children approach longer, multi-syllable words.  In fact, this can actually cause some children to see with a “dyslexia” tendency when they are really not dyslexic at all.     

 

2. The Word Family Approach presented Inside Little Reading Books

With this approach, word families are not drilled but presented in sentences inside little story books.  The story books often lack real story content, never move past “predictable” sentence structures, and offer pages such as:

Chad is sad.  Today, he does not wish to play.

Chad will nap today.

Mom sees Chad is sad.

Mom will get Chad to play.

Thus, children do not learn that reading is fun and interesting, and because of the repetitive phrases used in the stories, children learn to anticipate words rather than to approach and sound out words.   In addition, these reading programs start out at prices of $250 and higher. 

  

3. The Guided Reading Approach used in Public School Classroom across America.

This  approach insists that children memorize hundreds of whole words and then mixes all of that ridiculous memorization with a tiny bit of salt and pepper, embedded phonics.  It convinces children that words can be “figured out” or “guessed” by following little “clues.” Children do not ever learn to blend sounds together in words. 

This method doesn’t work, it leaves children guessing at words, it is not thorough , and it is the main reason why illiteracy has flourished in this nation since the 1950’s.   

 

4.  Beginning Consonant/Short Vowel Approach  - The (CV and CVC) Approach

With this method, children are taught to blend an initial consonant with a short vowel.  They practice saying all the short vowels sounds with one consonant at a time. For example, ba- be- bi- bo- bu-. After this is mastered, consonants are added to form three-letter, short-vowel words. 

Children learn to master and “punch” the short vowel sounds first, then the long vowel sounds, and then the schwa vowel sound, thus giving children a solid foundation in the three distinct ways to pronounce vowels.  All three phonics approaches are used: synthetic, linguistic and analytic, and these phonetic approaches are presented in a sequence that produces lasting and lifelong sounding-out skills.    

The CV/CVC Method takes a tad bit longer in the beginning because it “builds” children into three-letter, short-vowel words, but children also gain a proper left-right reading sequence,

How does the CV/CVC approach begin? 

First, a child is shown an initial consonant in isolation and taught its sound.

Second, a child learns the short vowel sounds. 

Third, a child begins his blending skills by blending the consonant sound together with the vowel sound before adding the next consonant. There is no way for the child to go except from left to right, and with enough practice, he will gain an automatic left to right reading habit!  

With the CV-CVC approach, daily lessons are mastered before goingon to the next lesson.  The lessons use a combination of synthetic, linguistic and analytic phonics.  Children proceed to learn every possible phonogram and blend, reading from left to right, and proceed all the way through a 4^th grade reading level and higher.   

 

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Curriculum uses Method 4 above, the (CV and CVC) Approach, but Candy’s Phonics also adds another fun approach entitled R’sA Phonics (rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration).  This is because at Candy 4WAY Phonics, we desire that homeschooling families receive a solid, phonetic/reading curriculum that is both easy to teach and fun to use but that is also thorough, encouraging children to master one lesson before proceeding to the next and not to quit until they have mastered every possible sound within words. 

 

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Curriculum begins by teaching what each of the vowels sound like as individual letters. Children build into three-letter, short vowel words and go on from mastering short vowel words on to long vowel words, and continuing through all the rest of the phonograms as they are presented in daily phonics lessons and sequenced readers (readers presented after every five daily lessons).   

Moreover, a child’s daily phonics lessons include only words, sentences and stories that contain letters, blends, and phonograms he has already mastered in previous lessons.  As a result, children learn both sounding-out skills and fluency skills and are eventually able to sound out every word on every page.

 

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Curriculum is available to anyone, anywhere on the globe, in printable, non-consumable format for just $9.97.   

 

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Curriculum is an easy to teach, step-by-step COMPLETE systematic phonics program.  It begins a child as young as 4 years old with synthetic, phonetic letter sounding and blending and carries that child all the way through every possible phonogram and blend he’ll ever need to know for the rest of his life.  In addition, it presents spelling rules throughout its 100 phonics lessons.  For just $10 more, parents can receive the entire curriculum on CD-Rom including an Audio CD-Rom in which they can hear every letter and every word and every sentence read aloud for all 100 lessons, eliminating all the guesswork. 

 

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Curriculum is loaded with fun rhyming, alliterative, and rhythmic sentences and stories that eventually give way to 3^rd and 4^th grade excerpts, poems and other materials containing connective words and varied sentence openers. 

 

The Candy 4WAY Phonics Curriculum includes 100 daily, step-by-step phonics lessons, 20 story readers with real story content, rhyming alphabet phonics charts, continuous phonics drill and review, rhyming phonics flashcards that enable children to advance from single letter sounds to two and three letter blends, one-syllable words, and multi-syllable words. It also includes rhyming Lifetime Phonics Charts that enable children to remember all the sounds they’ve learned for the rest of their lives. 

 

Candy 4WAY Phonics encourages children to master the distinct short and long vowel sounds, phonogram sounds, and blends until they can fluently read through sentences containing words that make up both simple and complex sentence patterns. 

 

Candy 4WAY Phonics comes as an INSTANT DOWNLOAD that includes lessons, charts, flashcards, and readers that moms can “print as they go.” The curriculum is set up this way to give homeschooling parents a complete phonics curriculum that is both affordable and non-consumable — parents can purchase the program just once and use it to teach all of their children how to read.

 

Moms, Dads, Grandmas, Grandpas, check us out.  Read what others are saying about this affordable, thorough, systematic 4WAY Phonics Curriculum. 

 

And if you haven’t read the true story of little Candy, please take the time to do so.  It’s a great story! 

 

Sincerely,

 

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics

www.candy4WAYphonics.com

 

 

Mom, Dad, are you grieved because your older son or daughter cannot read?  Do you feel that you’re the only one in your child’s life who really cares?  Indeed, you might be the only one who really cares, and that’s exactly why you need to know that your child can learn to read every word on every page! 

 

DON’T GIVE UP!   

THERE IS AN ANSWER!   

YOUR CHILD CAN LEARN TO READ EVERYTHING!

 

HERE ARE THREE PIECES OF GREAT NEWS!  

1) Your child can learn to read every word on every page!

 

2) You can receive a COMPLETE Phonics program as an INSTANT DOWNLOAD including step-by-step instructions, 100 easy-to-follow daily phonics lessons, phonics readers, rhyming phonics charts, rhyming phonics flashcards, phonics drill, multisensory vowel helps, and free email coaching — all for just $9.97.

 

3) You will need to spend just 20 to 30 minutes a day with your child.

 

With the Candy 4WAY Phonics Curriculum you can start your child (no matter what age he is) from the very beginning of phonics reading instruction and gradually build him/her into more and more complex words, sentences, paragraphs and readers.  Just look at the following progression of sentences as they grow in complexity throughout the Candy 4WAY Phonics program:

 

Dad is sad.  Mom is red.  Ken got a jet.  Kim is in bed.

As Mr. Bent did bask in the sun, Big Bug bit his back!  He bit it in fun!

Red and white candy canes taste so good. I would tape them to my shirt, if only I could.

Rowdy the hound is the chat of the town.
He can chow down on brown bones by the hour.
He can slouch on the couch and munch prime ribs ‘till dark,
and slurp grapes that are oh, so sour!

“Yes!” said Marcie’s teacher. “If we make out a plan to go and read it to Mr. Clay, we would not be bending any of our school rules.  We could go fishing and reel in a big catch.”

I saw a crawfish all long and all red,
crawling over a rock in a swampy riverbed.
Its claws were so awesome!  It had ten scrawny legs. 
So I picked up that crawfish and gave it to Peg.

It was a beautiful Saturday morning to jog, and the bright, green hue on the grass was still wet and glistening.  As Katie flew across the countryside, she spotted only a few patches of mud, though a hard rain had beaten down upon the earth earlier that morning.  Worried thoughts from the evening before were still brewing in the back of Katie’s brain, but she resolved to just ignore them.

Just as quickly, both girls recognized little Cole Glover. Cole was snuggled into a tire swing that swayed back and forth on one of the big branches of the old willow tree that stood proudly in the Andersons’ backyard. The tree’s long, golden branches hung almost down to the ground creating a cozy canopy of shade from the bright morning sunlight.

Douglas Delay had developed technology that could only be understood by the F.B.I. His automobile was under investigation, but, as yet, no one had traced Doug’s whereabouts or knew of the delivery date for the resources he carried.  The extent that his enemies would go through to secure that valuable information could only be interpreted by his most loyal friend, Eddy Exit, otherwise, known as: “The Envelope Man.” 

This was not just a neon sign, it was a symbol of hope.  This was a marker designed to manifest beauty, culture, achievement, and reward to a struggling Appalachian mining town. These hard-working people would now be able to link their children and their grandchildren together by connecting them with the discovery and delight of classical music.

 

 

 HOW DOES A CHILD BUILD INTO MORE COMPLEX SENTENCES?

 

Well, here is the progression of the sounding-out skills taught in the Candy 4WAY Phonics Program:

 

First, all the individual letter sounds are taught (not the names of the letters but the sounds that the letters stand for).

Second, a student learns how to blend a beginning consonant with a vowel from left to right such as:  ba  le  fi

Third,  a student begins to blend together three or four-letter words with a short vowel from left to right such as:  bed  can  fill  bend  raft  lint

Fourth, a student learns to blend together four-letter words with a short vowel that begin with a digraph such as: bl  pl  st  tr  sw  sm  sc from left to right and onto words beginning with combinations such as:  spr  spl scr  str

Fifth, a student learns how to blend together four and five-letter words containing long vowel combinations such as:   oa  ee  ea  ay  ie along with silent e words such as: cake  pale  crane

Sixth, a student gradually builds into more and more complex words –  words with multiple syllables that contain all the rest of the phonograms such as: aw  -ing  ough  oo  ear  eigh  -dge  -tion  and  pro-  de-  -ious   ear   -tain   eau

 

With the Candy 4WAY Phonics Program, your child will build from sounding out all the individual letter sounds into mastering how to sound out 152 different phonogram sounds. 

 

Your student will gain these skills daily, step-by-step, mastering one step before proceeding to another, with easy-to-learn, fun, daily 4WAY Phonics lessons, charts, spiral drill, and, of course, readers.  In addition, your child will learn the basic spelling rules as they naturally surface within the daily phonics lessons.   

 

Doesn’t your child deserve to know how to read.  Doesn’t your child deserve to know how to sound out every word on every page for the rest of his life. 

Moms, Dads, you can give your child those vital, reading skills for just $9.97.  In addition, for just $10 more, you can purchase a computer CD-Rom version of the program where you can hear every letter and every word and every sentence read aloud in every one of the 100 daily phonics lesson. 

 

Check us out – Candy 4WAY Phonics!  We guarantee, we’re The Best Phonics Bargain in Town! 

Did you know that approximately 62% of the English language is made up of short-vowel words and syllables? So learning to fluently sound out three-letter, short-vowel words (CVC words) gives children an immediate head start in reading!

Candy 4WAY Phonics would like to introduce you to three phonics games all  in one product to carry children from two-letter blends onto three-letter, short vowel words, ending with advanced practice adding on varied consonant endings. For just $4.97, you can purchase all Three  PDF Phonics File Folder Games!
 
This 3-game Phonics Package combines over 50 two-letter blends and 176 game cards that contain graduated practice in blending three-letter words with short vowels (CVC words).

Because of the number of game cards included, parents and teachers can select specific game cards to use for each game in order to “target” particular blends as well as explicit trouble spots for children. The game cards can also be used as flashcards for one-on-one practice or small-group instruction.

 

Here are More Details about each Game in this 3-Game Phonics Package:

THE FIRST GAME in this package gives children practice blending an initial consonant with a vowel CV blends).

 

THE SECOND GAME in this package gives children the review they often need to:

a)    Make a clear distinction between the short vowel sounds  

b)   Blend an initial consonant with a short vowel (CV blends) through the use of blend ladders

c)    Blend a beginning consonant/short vowel blend with an ending consonant.

 

THE THIRD GAME in this package gives children practice sounding out three-letter words with short vowels (CVC words) while attaching different ending consonants to each word such as can, cab, cat

 

At Candy 4WAY Phonics, we believe that children are gravely lacking in phonemic awareness skills. Moreover, we solidly propose that the whole idea behind the development of phonemic awareness skills is to give children all the skills necessary to sound out and authentically read three-letter CVC words with short-vowel sounds.

When children can fluently sound out any three-letter, short-vowel word, they will have developed all the beginning blending skills necessary to go on to the rest of the phonogram blends as well as long vowels, and multi-syllables.

Thus, phonetically-trained children become boys and girls who are able to read every word on every page. When those children become adults, they have no fear of approaching new words either privately or publicly. They become adept readers of any text whether it be a newspaper, a college textbook, or a lab report.

 

Candy 4WAY Phonics provides: 

 an affordable and COMPLETE 4WAY Systematic Phonics Curriculum

affordable PDF File Folder Phonics Games 

affordable printable Multisensory Phonics Flashcards/Wallcards 

and Various PDF Teaching Learning Resources 

all for under $10 each.  

 

Check us out.  Your child can learn to read every word on every page when he uses the correct systematic phonics tools. 

 

Sincerely,  

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics

www.candy4wayphonics.com

 

 

Blending Those Letters Together 

Is your child having trouble blending letters? 

Begin by teaching your child the sound represented by all the alphabet letters.

 

When you come to the vowels, teach just short vowel sounds at first.

Don’t worry about the long vowel sounds yet.  A good systematic phonics program such as Candy 4WAY Phonics for just $9.97 will introduce plenty of  practice with short vowel blending.  Long vowels will be taught after your child has become proficient and fluent in blending short-vowel words.

 

Pronounce each letter sound correctly and have your child repeat the sound.

For example, the letter d does not say “duh.”  It says “d.”   

 

To print rhyming flashcards for all the letter sounds, go to http://www.candy4wayphonics.com/free_phonics_stuff.htm

The rhyming flashcards found at this webpage give a picture along with each letter sound to help the child associate and remember what each letter sounds like. Eventually, cover up the pictures so that the child sees only the letters. 

 

Have your child loudly “punch” the vowels when speaking them aloud so that he can easily hear the distinction between their sounds.  Hearing and speaking this distinction is vital!

 

After your child can accurately repeat all the letter sounds without the use of pictures, he is ready to blend a beginning consonant with a vowel.

 

Using what teachers call “blend ladders,”teach your child to blend two letters together in one of two ways:

 

 

1) Using a pointer, point to the beginning consonant letter, have your child say the consonant sound, and then blend that consonant sound into the vowel sound.

 

or

 

2) Using a pointer, point to the vowel first and have your child repeat the vowel.  Then, using a pointer, take your child back to the beginning consonant sound and blend that consonant sound into the vowel sound (see illustration in blue – below)

 

Either way, be sure and use a pointer (the point of a pencil will work fine). Use the pointer to focus your child’s eyes where you want them to be focused. 

 

When blending a consonant with a vowel, sweep the pointer under the consonant and then under both the consonant and the vowel at the same time your child blends the two letters together. Move your pointer slightly faster than the child pronounces the blend. 

 

Some children pick up blending right away while others may learn gradually over an extended period of time (days, weeks, or months.), and others suddenly “get it” when you least expect it.

 

The key is to present that very first blending lesson every day, twice a day, calmly and patiently always presenting that very first blending lesson as if it’s the first time you’ve ever given the lesson.  Your goal is to convince your child he is smart and to give him the time he needs to “catch on” to blending, no matter how long that takes.  This one skill, blending, will make the difference in your child’s reading abilities for the rest of his life!

 

Once your child has learned to blend two letters, he will be ready to tack on a third consonant letter in order to read three-letter, short-vowel words.

 

After that, he will need to go through a systematic phonics program that will carry him step-by-step through plenty of practice reading short vowel words that begin with single consonants and then on to short vowel words that begin with consonant digraphs. He’ll also need that phonics program to help him through long-vowel sounds and then through all the other phonograms.

 

I guarantee you, the most affordable systematic, step-by-step phonics program out there is Candy 4WAY Phonics for just $9.97.  Why spend $200 or $300 on a phonics curriculum, when you can spend just $9.97 and receive a COMPLETE Step-by-step, fun Phonics Curriculum that includes everything?   Just look at what you’ll receive in printable format as an INSTANT DOWNLOAD that you can use as often as you like for as many children as you need:

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

2)  100 Daily, step-by-step 4WAY Phonics Lessons loaded with fun rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration

3)  Candy Sequenced Story Readers interwoven into the daily lessons 

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)  Continuous Daily Phonics Drill

      FREE e-mail coaching

In addition, for just $10 more, you can receive this same COMPLETE Phonics Program on computer CD-Rom that includes an Audio CD where you can hear every letter and every word and every sentence read aloud for all 100 Daily Phonics Lessons. 

 

Candy 4WAY Phonics is:  Parent/friendly    Affordable    Printable    and     It Works! 

Sincerely,  

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics www.candy4wayphonics.com  

P.S. Candy 4WAY Phonics also offers affordable, printable phonics games to further help  children learn CV blends and CVC words.  Did you know that 62% of the English language is made up of short vowel words and syllables (CVC words and syllables)? 

 

One of the goals for Candy 4WAY Phonics is to make certain that today’s Parents and Teachers have what it takes to get phonemic awareness systematic phonics skills into our children as early as possible.

 

Phonemic awareness is an ability children develop that enables them to recognize individual sounds inside words by using both their ears and their eyes. It’s the ability to hear, identify and manipulate the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. 

 

Phonological awareness begins to develop during the preschool years.  Unless children are given help from parents, teachers or other adults , those children with lower levels of phonological awareness will continue to be delayed in this skill from the late preschool period forward. 

 

Researchers have found that phonemic awareness and letter sound knowledge (not the names of the letters but the sounds that the letters stand for), are very clear-cut school entry predictors of how well children will learn to read during their first two years of reading instruction  (Share, Jorm, Matthews & Maclean). 

 

Moreover, the necessity to gain subsequent left/right letter-sound blending skills can only follow after a child has a strong handle on Phonemic Awareness.   

 

QUESTION:  Could you repeat in layman’s terms exactly why phonemic awareness and early systematic phonics preschool training are so helpful for 3 and 4 year old children?

 

ANSWER: Many times, 1st through 4th grade children have difficulty with phonics instruction because they did not develop early phonemic awareness skills and subsequent letter sound blending skills during their preschool or kindergarten years.

 

For example, did you know that approximately 62% of the English language is made up of short-vowel words and syllables? So learning to fluently sound out three-letter, short-vowel words (CVC words) gives children an immediate head start in reading!

 

Yet, so very many children start out first grade attempting to read three-letter words (CVC Words) but fail miserably because:

1) They don’t know where to begin reading a word.
2) They cannot distinguish between the vowel sounds.
3) They cannot distinguish between the three individual sounds in the word.
4) They have not been given enough exposure and practice mastering letter sounds, learning to blend two-letter sounds, and learning to blend three-letter words.

 

As a result, these children are given failing grades in reading early on.

 

Many of these children develop self-image problems that mostly likely would not have occurred if only they had received ALL THE BUILDING BLOCKS to systematic phonetic reading.

 

QUESTION: So what is included in the Candy 4WAY Phonics Preschool Systematic Phonics Package for 3 and 4 year old children?

 

ANSWER: Candy’s 4WAY Phonics Preschool Systematic Phonics Package for 3 and 4 year old children includes all of the following for just $7.97:

 1) Candy’s 31 Multisensory LARGE A to Z Flashcards/Wall Cards (with multisensory vowel helps) 

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

 3) How to Follow Candy’s 4WAY Phonics Preschool Program 

 4) Multisensory Vowel Helps to teach preschoolers to distinguish between the vowel sounds 

 5) Rhyming Alphabet Phonics Charts that carry a child right up to the Daily Preschool 4WAY Phonics Lessons 

 6) 25 Step-by-step Daily 4WAY Phonics Preschool Lessons – Click here to see samples of our Preschool Step-bystep Daily Phonics Lessons. 

 7) Sequenced Preschool Lesson Drill Sheets to provide continuous review  

  A Preschooler’s First Reader 

 9) Farmer Dan’s Critters Games are included with the Preschool Package (these two games lead children through 3-letter, short vowel words and are also sold separately) 

10) Achievement Awards Certificates  

 

After completing the Candy 4WAY Phonics Preschool Package, preschool children will be “way ahead of the game.”

 

Having gained the skills to sound out 3-letter, short vowel words, preschoolers will be ready to begin the SECOND level of the Candy 4WAY Phonics Program that will take them all the way through 4^th grade and higher reading level.

 

Click Here to read more about this fabulous Preschool Systematic 4WAY Phonics INSTANT DOWNLOAD Printable and Non-Consummable Program for just $7.97.   

Sincerely,

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics

 

 

Did you just hear the words, “Your child needs to improve in reading?”  

 

Did you just receive your older child’s grade card only to find that it reported one low grade after another, and you suspect it’s because your child cannot read? 

 

Sadly, studies prove that there really is such a thing as a fourth grade slump.  In the fourth grade, students are no longer learning to read; rather, they are now reading to learn.  So as students  begin to encounter more and more words not found on high-frequency word lists, words that they have not memorized and do not have the skills to sound out, their grades in other subjects such as math, science, history, and literature begin to slump. 

 

Far too often, I’ve heard comments from parents such as the following: 

“I’ve tried everything to help my child desire to read. I have tried different books written about subjects he likes, but he still has no desire to read.“

 

“I’ve read out loud to her, and I’ve tried to sound excited about what I’m reading, but she wants nothing to do with books or reading.“

 

“Nothing works with my fourth grader. She still hates reading. She just dreads reading.“

 

“I’ve tried giving my fourth grader $25 for every improvement he makes in his reading grade.   He doesn’t want the money badly enough, I guess.“

 

“I’ve tried taking my 10-year-old son’s video games away from him to give him more time to read. He despises reading. Nothing is working. He still can’t read.”

 

“My fourth grader struggles to read the words on the page. He rushes through his tests and gets failing test scores. I think it’s because he can’t read all the words; he doesn’t understand what he’s reading.“

 

“My fourth grader reads so slowly that by the time he gets to the end of the paragraph, he can’t remember what he’s read.“

 

“My ten-year-old skips so many words that it’s impossible for her to understand any of what she read.“

 

 

So why do so many of our children struggle to read when they reach the fourth grade? 

 

Simply put, if a fourth grader is struggling to read, it’s because he’s never learned how to sound out all the words on the page.

 

He may have learned a few words from memory, and he may have learned a few “word parts,” but he hasn’t learned all the possible phonograms that make up words, and he hasn’t learned how to blend together those phonograms from left to right in both familiar and unfamiliar words.

 

He hates reading because he’s tired of constantly running across words he doesn’t know.

 

A child who has not learned how to blend together from left to right all the possible sounds that makeup words can easily develop both an enormous fear and an intense hatred toward reading.

 

Following is an example of how easily we can give a child a hatred for reading.  Let’s suppose that you are a child who has not learned all the sounds that make up words and that you have not learned how to sound out from left to right both familiar and unfamiliar words .

This is what you might “see” as you attempt to read through a paragraph: 

Yesterday, Ben fxxlxshly dxxxded to vxxlt a sizxxbxx wall with his skateboard, a wall that his parents had caxtxxxxed him time and time again not to jump. As he xxproxcxxx the wall, he was only slixxtly xwarx of the imxxnent pexxl. His heaxt pumped inside his chest as he found himself adjaxxnt with the wall. As his skateboard axxended upwaxds, all of a sudden, he lost command of the boxxd. After that, all he could recoxxxxt was landing dixectxx on the tip of his upper cranixm as well as feeling a painful pulsatixxx in his neck. And then, nothing!

 

You see, there would be just too many phonograms and too many vowel blends that you would not know, and you would be forced to guess at the words that you couldn’t read. It’s for sure, the chore of “guessing at words” gets real old, real fast!

 

Now, let’s suppose that this is what you see in every paragraph you encounter, paragraph after paragraph, page after page, day after day. How much would you desire to read books if this is what you saw when you looked at the words on the page?

 

Yet, this is exactly how we are training our children in reading. Guided reading asks children to memorize hundreds of whole words without teaching them the individual letter sounds or how to blend those letter sounds and letter combinations together.

Children in America’s classrooms do not know how to distinguish between the vowel sounds.

They do not know how to tell if vowels are short or long.

They do not know the sounds of blended letter combinations such as ea (ea can say three different sounds), ough (ough can say five different sounds) or ear (ear can say three different sounds) and so, we are also imparting to so many of our students a genuine hatred toward books and reading.

 

However, did you know that children who have gone through a systematic, synthetic phonics curriculum have learned all their letter sounds, vowel sounds, and combination letter blends?  Did you know that these phonics first children sound out words straight through from left to right with no problem.  Did you know that children trained in intensive phonics do not have to guess at words because they know how to sound out words they’ve never seen before?   

 

In fact, the following is what a systematic phonics student would have seen and been able to read if he had been shown the same paragraph above.

 

Yesterday, Ben foolishly decided to vault a sizeable wall with his skateboard, a wall that his parents had cautioned him time and time again not to jump. As he approached the wall, he was only slightly aware of the imminent peril. His heart pumped inside his chest as he found himself adjacent with the wall. As his skateboard ascended upwards, all of a sudden, he lost command of the board. After that, all he could recollect was landing directly on the tip of his upper cranium as well as feeling a painful pulsating in his neck. And then, nothing!

 

Well, you say, “phonics curriculums are fine for those parents who can afford them, but I don’t have $200 to $300 to spend for lessons and charts and readers and flashcards.”

 

The folks at Candy 4WAY Phonics understand this dilemma, and that’s exactly why we offer a systematic 4WAY Phonics curriculum that includes everything the high-priced phonics curriculums include such as:  daily, fun, systematic phonics lessons, phonics charts, phonics readers, phonics drill, phonics flashcards, and so much more for less than $10. 

That’s correct!  Don’t let the price fool you!  You really will receive all of the above for just $9.97.

To learn more about: 

affordable multisensory phonics flashcards and wallcards

affordable phonics games

and a COMPLETE and soooooooo affordable phonics curriculum that enables parents to teach their children, age 4 through Grade 4 to sound out words using a systematic, step-by-step, easy-to-understand, fun 4WAY Phonics curriculum, click here.  (Note – if your child is 10 or 11 years old and cannot read, take him through this program from the very beginning to be sure he has all the reading building blocks necessary to be able to read every word on every page.) 

Sincerely,

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics
www.candy4wayphonics.com

 

Let me begin by saying that when it comes to reading, Phonics Makes a Mammoth Difference!

 

What is Phonics? 

Phonics is learning how to recognize and blend together the sounds of letters.  For example, when a child sees a word such as bracelet, if he has learned Phonics, he will break the word apart in his mind like this:  

 br    ace    let.  

He will be able to blend together the letters br. 

He will know that the letter a says its own name because of the silent e at the end of that word part. 

He will know that the letter c says the  s-s-s-s sound because it comes before the letter e. 

He will know that the letter e in let says its short sound because he has had tons of practice reading three-letter, short-vowel words and word parts (CVC Words). 

Finally, a Phonics student will be able to blend all of those word parts together to read the word bracelet the first time he encounters the word.

 

How does Phonics enable a child to read all the words on the page?

A Phonics student will not struggle with a word such as bracelet.  He will be able to sound it out even if he’s never seen the word before because he will have completed a Systematic, Synthetic Phonics Curriculum and mastered each daily phonics lesson within that curriculum before he’s gone on to the next lesson.

 

Phonics students have taken the time necessary to learn all the possible letter blends within words.  They have mastered these blends step-by-step, one day at a time, using a step-by-step, user/friendly, systematic, synthetic phonics curriculum.

 

Phonics students know that each letter can have many sounds, but they also know that when some letters are combined with other letters, they can make different sounds. Phonics students have learned the sounds that letters make alone and the sounds that letters make when they are combined with other letters.

 

How is Phonics different from the “look say” method of reading? 

The “look say” reading method teaches a child to memorize whole words.  It does not teach a child the individual sounds within words or how to blend those sounds together.  Sadly, after a child has memorized about 2,000 words, his brain simply cannot remember any more words.  This is devastating, because by the end of the fourth grade, children need to be able to read between 30,000 and 40,000 words.  Phonics students have no problem reading this many words, because they can blend together the parts that make up words. 

  

How is Phonics different from the Whole Language Method of Teaching Reading?

The Whole Language Method teaches children to guess at words by their shape, by the first letter, by recognizing random word parts, or by the context of the rest of the words on the page.  In contrast, Phonics students do not need to guess at words.  Phonics students do not need to figure out a word by the context of the sentence or by the shape of a word or by recognizing a word part inside the word.  Phonics students can read through unfamiliar words by blending all the word parts together from left to right.   

 

Do struggling readers do better with Phonics? 

Struggling readers stop struggling to read after they have learned all the phonics blends.  Being able to sound out all the parts of words puts an end to struggling readers.  

 

At what age should Phonics Instruction begin?

Parents are the best judge for when their child needs to begin reading instruction, but children can begin reading instruction as young as 3 or 4 years old.  Three year olds can begin learning to hear the sounds of letters within words through rhyming games and multisensory letter cards.  A child as young as 4 years old can learn to blend sounds together to form three-letter, short-vowel words (CVC words).  Some children who are 4 years old have been able to read multi-syllable words at a 1^st grade reading level especially if they were taken through phonemic awareness and early blending skills with a systematic phonics preschool reading program.

 

How much do Systematic, Synthetic Phonics Curriculums cost?   

Phonics curriculums that include daily, systematic phonics lessons, multisensory help, phonics readers and phonics charts can cost parents as much as $300 to $400 dollars.  You can say it!  Ouch!

Some Phonics curriculums that include just the daily lessons can cost as little as $35.

However, there is one Phonics Curriculum that includes everything for as little as $9.97. 

  

Candy 4WAY Phonics includes all of the following for as little as $9.97:

*Easy-to-understand Instructions
*Systematic, Daily Phonics Lessons
*Multisensory Vowel Helps
*Sequenced Phonics Readers
*Continuous, Spiral Phonics Drill
*Fun Phonics Lessons and Stories
*Rhyming Alphabet Charts
*Lifetime Rhyming Phonics Charts – and so much more!

 

Where can I find an affordable systematic, synthetic, explicit, intensive phonics curriculum like the one described above?

That’s what Candy 4WAY Phonics is all about.  Candy 4WAY Phonics was developed to make systematic phonics affordable for everyone. 

Click here to read the true story of a little girl named Candy, and to find out about the phonics curriculum that enabled little Candy to progress from being the worst reader in her reading group to being the best reader in her reading group.

 

Sincerely,

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics
www.candy4wayphonics.com

To see all of our phonics resources including:  multisensory flashcards, fun phonics games, an audio phonics pronunciation CD-rom, a preschool systematic phonics package, and much more,
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