1
Nov
Posted in child reading problems, children who struggle to read, teaching phonics | Comments Off on How do you teach a child to read? FREE PHONICS FOR STRUGGLING READERS
So how do you
teach a child TO READ
who cannot read?
Well, let’s look at the story of a real little girl who couldn’t read and find out how she learned to read every word on every page.
The story begins in the life of a real little girl named Candy.
Read Candy’s True Story, and remember, if your child cannot read, your child can learn to read every word on every page, just like Candy.
Sincerely,
Carol Kay, President
Candy 4WAY Phonics
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17
Apr
Posted in blending letter sounds, blending letter sounds to make words, blending letters, phonics curriculum, phonics first curriculum, phonics first program, phonics program | Comments Off on Blending Letters to Make Words – Your Child Can Catch up in Reading this Summer!
Is your child struggling to read?
We can help!
We really can!
First, however, let me tell you a little about how to teach your child to blend letters together as he reads.
As important as it is for children to learn each individual letter “sound,” eventually every child will need to learn how to blend the sounds of the letters together. At Candy 4WAY Phonics, we make this blending process easy because we color code word parts and place those word parts into blending segments.
For example, before we introduce the word cat, we give children step-by-step lessons in the individual sounds for the letters c short a and t.
Following that instruction, children are taught to blend just the first two letters of the word cat. They are taught to:
1) say the sound of the first consonant – c
2) say the sound of the short vowel – a
3) blend those two sounds together like this: c a – caaaa
When an instructor demonstrates that ca blend, he should hold out the sound of short a like this: c aaaa – caaaa
Second, children are taught to:
1) say the blend of ca
2) tack on the sound of the final consonant like this: caaaa t – caaaat -cat
It is very important when beginning blending lessons with a child that he FIRST thoroughly learns to distinguish between the individual short vowel sounds. In fact, children should learn to “punch” the short vowel sounds loudly so that they can hear themselves pronounce the distinctive sound for each short vowel.
At Candy 4WAY Phonics we supply Multisensory Vowel Pictures to help children hear/see each vowel sound (in pictures). For example, most children have a difficult time telling the difference between the short a sound and the short e sound. Our Multisensory Vowel Pictures help children to see/hear this distinction.
Parents, make it easy on yourselves. The entire Candy 4WAY Phonics COMPLETE Curriculum sells for just $9.97 in INSTANT DOWNLOAD format. This makes it quick and affordable for parents to purchase and print what they need for each day’s phonics/reading lesson and also to click through the pages of past and future lessons they may desire to view.
For those parents who are not certain of the sound of each of the letters and blends, for just $10.00 more you can purchase our CD-Rom program in which you can hear me read every letter, and every blend, and every word and every sentence of every chart and every lesson out loud. Simply print that day’s lesson, then put the Candy 4WAY Phonics Audio CD-Rom into your computer to hear that day’s lesson read aloud. Parents can practice right along with the lesson before they ever present it to their child. Actually hearing the lesson ahead of time removes all the guesswork. Your child can learn his letter sounds and blends in a systematic, step-by-step daily format.
Why pay $300 for a phonics curriculum when you can purchase the whole COMPLETE package for just $9.97 or $19.97 in CD-Rom format.
The Candy 4WAY Phonics COMPLETE Curriculum includes all of the following
- An 82-page e-book entitled: How to Teach Systematic Phonics
- An easy-to-use Instruction Guide
- 100 step-by-step daily phonics lessons (these lessons will carry your child from age 4 all the way through a 4th grade reading level and higher)
- Multisensory vowel helps
- Flashcards
- Rhyming Alphabet Charts
- Sequenced Phonics Readers built right into the lessons
- Systematic Review and Drill
- An audio CD-Rom in which you will hear every chart and every lesson read aloud (the audio CD-Rom is included only with the CD-Rom package)
- Spelling helps, pronunciation helps, and much more.
We know you’ll be pleased!
Sincerely,
Carol Kay, President
Candy 4WAY Phonics
www.candy4wayphonics.com
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6
Feb
Posted in report card comments reading | Comments Off on Was Your Child’s Reading Score Low on His Report Card?
It Happened Again.
You Saw the Report Card.
He’s Below Average in Reading.
You’re worried. You don’t know what to think. You don’t know what to do.
You want to trust the teacher when she says, “Wait a while!”
However, you don’t trust that “waiting awhile” is really going to do the trick.
Your child is getting older every year, not younger, and that window of opportunity to learn to sound out words is quickly slipping away.
You see more and more of these types of comments on your child’s report card:
Your child has difficulty distinguishing sounds in words.
Your child needs to increase his speed and comprehension in reading.
Your child is not able to blend short words using the vowels without assistance.
Your child is not learning to attack words independently.
Your child’s reading is jerky, hesitant, irregular, or slow.
Your child does not comprehend what he reads.
Your child is not interested in books or reading.
Your child cannot read to follow directions.
Or your child brings home notes that say any of the following:
Your child cannot recognize sight words.
Your child needs a lot of repetition and practice in order to retain reading vocabulary.
Your child still confuses words that look alike.
Your child’s reading is not yet automatic.
Your child cannot read his sentences back.
Your child has difficulty distinguishing sounds in words.
Your child has not developed a mature reading vocabulary.
Your child confuses sounds.
Your child has difficulty remembering the spelling of non-phonetic words.
Your child cannot spell.
So what’s next? How are you supposed to know what to do?
I know this may sound trite, but have you tried systematic phonics?
I’m not talking about the type of phonics that the teacher is telling you that your child is “already getting.”
I’m not talking about the type of reading instruction that teaches your child to memorize whole words from a word wall and then throws in a little bit of phonics.
I’m talking about systematic, phonics first, step-by-step phonics – the kind of phonics that does not force children to memorize hundreds of whole words from the Dolch Sight Word List.
I’m speaking about the kind of phonics that was still around when all the John Boy Walton’s were growing up.
It’s a fact, children who lived just prior to and through the Great Depression learned to read using a systematic, phonics-first curriculum in which they learned all their letter sounds, vowel sounds, and every other possible phonogram, and then they learned to blend all those letter sounds together , from left to right, in every word on every page.
Those were children who did not have to guess at words because they knew how to easily sound out words they had never seen before?
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 a COMPLETE and soooooooo affordable systematic 4WAY 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.
Sincerely,
Carol Kay, President
Candy 4WAY Phonics
www.candy4wayphonics.com
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