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. 

Teach Children How to Write Subordinate Clauses and How to Use Complex Connective Words to Vary their Sentence Openers

100 Subordinate Clause ANIMAL Sentence Openers  

This Package gives homeschooling parents and teachers resources to teach students how to vary their sentence beginnings using

 1) Subordinate Clauses 

2) Connective and Complex Connective Words                                                  

3) 100 Factual Tidbits about 100 Different Animals  

This brand new teaching resource combines connective and complex connective word phrases, varied sentence openers, subordinate clause sentence patterns, and 100 tidbits about 100 different animals.   

At Candy 4WAY Phonics, we believe that learning correct grammar and varied sentence structure is vital knowledge necessary to help every child write papers with appealing content.

Moreover, children who learn how to open their paragraphs using a variety of topic sentence openers are also children who write papers that quickly progress from “good” papers to “outstanding” papers.

That’s because paragraphs that open with variety hold the reader’s attention and make him thirsty to read more!   

Imagine!  100 Subordinate Clause ANIMAL Sentence Openers EACH supplying a different sentence opener and EACH containing a complex connective word clause.

Imagine!  100 Subordinate Clause ANIMAL Sentence Openers EACH presenting a factual tidbit about an animal.  

QUESTION:  Are there even more ways to make use of this teacher resource? 

ANSWER:  There sure are!  Parents, Teachers, use these 100 varied sentences containing  100 different animal factual tidbits to encourage your students to: learn:

 Write sentences using connective and complex connective word phrases

 Vary the way they open sentences, paragraphs, and stories

 Use given animal facts to develop further research skills

 Build a higher vocabulary by substituting different adjectives for the adjectives in the sentences

 Utilize animal characteristics to develop characters and plot

 Develop deeper creative writing skills

 To see sample sentence openers and to read more about 100 Subordinate Clause ANIMAL Sentence Openers INSTANT DOWNLOAD click here .  

This package, 100 Subordinate Clause ANIMAL Sentence Openers, includes 4 eBooks:        

1) Why Teach Subordinate Clause Sentence Openers

2) Teaching Children to do Research and to Use their Research in their Writing

3) How to Teach Children to Write Subordinate Clause Sentence Openers

4) 100 Subordinate Clause ANIMAL Sentence Openers

We promise, this is one more fantastic parent/teacher resource at the super affordable price of just $3.97!

Sincerely,

Carol Kay, President, Candy 4WAY Phonics

www.candy4wayphonics.com

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

THAT’S CORRECT!   These 65 LARGE Colored Multisensory Flashcards / Wall Cards will come to you as an INSTANT DOWNLOAD in ready-to-print format. Print these as often as you like in as many quantities as you like.  If you spill something on one, just print it off again!

If you’re looking for a multisensory tool to help your children learn not only all the phonics sounds but also all of their possible spellings, this is fantastic resource!

Each LARGE Colored Multisensory Flashcard / Wall Card Picture appeals not only to a child’s sight, but also to his sense of touch, his appeal to colors, his sense of emotion, and his sense of hearing.
With these 65 LARGE Colored Multisensory Flashcards / Wall Cards your child will learn:

1)        all of the alphabet letter sounds

2)      both the short and long vowel sounds

3)      all those 114 common but tricky phonogram sounds

4)     all the spellings for each phonogram sound – For example, did you know that Long A can be spelled 10 different ways!

These Multisensory Flashcards / Wall Cards display multisensory pictures as well as tons of catchy rhymes and phrases.

This is a great resource to help young children as young as preschool with phonemic awareness all the way up to older children who struggle in reading and need to learn not only the phonograms, but all the possible spellings and sounds for the alphabet letters and phonics blends.  And they are the perfect décor for a teacher’s classroom walls or a homeschooler’s education room.

Imagine a child viewing a freezing bear inside of an ice cube that represents the sound of the phonogram br.

Or a hooting owl that represents the sounds of the phonograms long u, long oo, u_e, ue, ui, ew, and ough.

If you’ve ever viewed the television special about Marva Collins, you’ll remember those vintage multisensory alphabet letter wall cards that surrounded her classroom. Each wall card illustrated one multisensory picture that represented one of the alphabet letter sounds.  The Candy 4WAY Phonics 65 LARGE Colored Multisensory Flashcards / Wall Cards have been patterned after those vintage wall cards, except that each Candy Multisensory Card has been updated with this generation’s styles.

Multisensory training takes advantage of the way our senses–hearing, sight, and touch — reinforce one another as we learn. The combination of listening, looking, and moving presented in these flashcard pictures creates a lasting impression—things connect to each other and letter sounds begin to fit into place in a child’s mind.

The  Candy 4WAY Phonics 65 LARGE Colored Multisensory Flashcards / Wall Cards is a great resource to help young children as young as preschool with phonemic awareness all the way up to older children who struggle in reading and need to learn not only the phonograms, but all the possible spellings for the phonogram sounds.

 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! 

What is Explicit Systematic Phonics?  Explicit Systematic Phonics is the direct and explicit teaching of the major sound/symbol relationships in a specific and clearly defined sequence. 

Does all that sound complicated?  It doesn’t have to be.  This is because Candy 4way Phonics makes it possible for parents to learn and to teach  their child, one step at a time, all the major sound/symbol relationships, including consonants, blends, short and long vowels, consonant and vowel digraphs, diphthongs, and variant sound-symbol relationships. 

Why do public school teachers insist that they are teaching phonics?  I mean, don’t they teach word families, and isn’t that the same as systematic phonics?

To answer that question, let me begin by repeating a comment I received from a mother who wrote:   

“I purchased some easy-to-read books for my first grade daughter.  She’s having an awful time blending the sounds together.  I don’t think she understands how the sounds go together, and I don’t think she can hear specific sounds within the parts of words.  Also, she could only complete the books with a great deal of help from me.  There has to be a better way to learn reading than this, but I’m not sure what steps to take.  I don’t want my child to become labeled.”   

Unfortunately, this little girl is struggling to read because she has not gone through a step-by-step, systematic phonics lesson plan that begins with individual sounds blended with other individual sounds at the beginning of words. 

Instead, she has gone through a typical public education Guided Reading program that teaches children to look for word parts within words that they recognize and then to guess at the rest of the word.  This encourages children to begin reading words at either the beginning of the word or in the middle of the word or at the end of the word, wherever they recognize a word part. 

To make matters even worse, Guided Reading also teaches children to memorize whole words and whole sentences inside easy-to-read books without ever stopping to blend together the sounds of the letters within the words.  Thus, reading becomes a giant guessing game using a series of clues such as:  the picture on the page, the shape and length of the word, the first letter of the word, a recognizable word part, or deciding upon which word might make sense in the sentence. 

 Sadly, this Guided Reading, whole-word, guessing game is leaving millions of children unable to blend letter sounds and word parts together for the rest of their lives.   You see, children need to learn to read with a systematic phonetic plan that teaches them to blend individual sounds at the beginning of words and that builds them up with the necessary skills to blend those sounds with all the other parts within words.  Reading requires a laid-out system of learning that: 

First, teaches what sounds all the letters and groups of letters stand for

and  

Second, teaches how to blend those letters and word parts all together. 

Learning to read doesn’t just “happen” by placing easy-to-read books in front of children and asking them to memorize all the whole words on all the pages.

We must teach children to read in somewhat the same way that we learned how to drive a car.  When we learned to drive a car, we learned one step at a time, adding on more and more steps, blending those steps together, blending them faster and faster with more and more practice.

For example, we learned first, to check the gas and oil and second, to get into the driver’s seat. We went on to learn, step by step, to make certain everyone had their seat belt fastened, to put the key in and start the car, to slowly push on the accelerator, to look where we were going, to drive slowly at first, to speed up a little as we learned more, and so on and so.

Each day that we arrived to Driver’s Ed Class, we were taught more and more individual driving steps as well as correct driving responses to common driver situations, and we learned to blend all those steps and responses together faster and faster.   To be certain, good drivers began their driving adventures by learning individual driving steps.  This is because their instructors wanted to make certain that they understood everything they needed to know to drive safely and to stay alive.

 I got a charge out of a comment from one internet writer who answered the question:  “What are the steps to driving?”  He pretty much stated what it would be like if we all learned to drive “all at once” using a method similar to that of look/say, whole-word, sight-reading instruction. 

He suggested that we start the car, pick a gear, jam the gas pedal to the floor, stop if we see red, go if we see green, slow down if we see yellow.  If we hit a cat, we earn 5 points.  If we hit a dog we earn 8 points.  If we hit a squirrel we earn 10 points.  

 I’m sure he was just joking around, but his method was a learn-as-you-go driving plan with possible casualties treated lightly.  It’s almost as if he was saying:  

“Just laugh at yourself as you go along, force yourself to drive more and more, think fun thoughts and go places you enjoy, and, eventually, learning to drive will all come together for you.  As the days go by, you’ll be hitting fewer and fewer  animals, and you’ll learn to drive inside the lanes more and more if you just keep practicing.”  

This is certainly NOT the way to learn to drive, and this is, most assuredly, NOT the way to learn to read. 

Mom, Dad, it’s time to take the reigns and teach your own child how to read.  Our American public schools insist upon whole-word, sight-reading, guided-reading techniques of reading instruction, and because of this stubbornness, more and more Americans are failing to learn to read every word on every page. 

Come check us out!  Candy 4WAY Phonics offers parents, grandparents, and teachers who desire to learn and to teach phonics instruction a COMPLETE Systematic 4WAY Phonics Curriculum.  It’s a fun, thorough, COMPLETE phonics curriculum designed to teach children  — from K4 through Grade 4 level reading and higher – in printable format for only $9.97. 

Don’t be fooled by the price!!!  For only $9.97, you’ll receive: 

*Step by step instructions

*Easy-to-learn Rhyming Alphabet Charts

*Multisensory vowel helps

*100 daily systematic, fun, 4WAY Phonics Lessons

*Sequenced, leveled colored, fun Story Readers

*Rhyming colored flashcards

*As-you-go Spelling Rules

*Lifetime Rhyming Phonics Charts

*Free Email Coaching, and so much more! 

What is Explicit, Systematic Phonics? 

Well it’s NOT Guided Reading. 

Rather, it’s a planned-out system of daily phonics lessons that teaches children to blend together, from left to right, all the individual letters and letter combinations one step at a time.  Teaching your child to read using a parent-friendly Explicit, Systematic 4WAY Phonics Curriculum will be one of the most important skills you give your child!

 Sincerely,

 Carol Kay, President

Candy 4way Phonics    

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

QUESTION: What should a printable systematic phonics reader do for a child?

ANSWER: A systematic phonics reader should show a child what he has already learned, give him extra practice reading phonetically, and prove to the child that he can read. 

QUESTION: So how are Candy 4WAY Phonics Readers different from other story readers?

ANSWER:   Candy 4WAY Phonics Readers  are different from other story readers in 5 BIG ways:

1) Letter sounds and blends contained on the pages of each phonics reader are learned by the child BEFORE he reads the story. For just $9.97, parents are purchasing a COMPLETE Printable Systematic Phonics Curriculum that includes sequenced phonics readers that follow after every five daily phonics lessons (100 systematic phonics lessons – 20 sequenced colored phonics readers). 

2) Candy Story Readers are used after the child has already learned every sound in every word of each reader.  So children are reading stories that they are capable of reading with ease plus a measure of fluency.  Candy readers convince children they are smart, that they are, indeed, learning to read. 

3) Rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration, a key element of many Candy Phonics 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, Candy Phonics 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).  Studies clearly demonstrate 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.

Click here to read more about Candy Phonics Readers and to skim through Candy Story Reader samples!

Sincerely,  

Carol Kay, President

Candy 4WAY Phonics 

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)?