What is 4WAY Phonics?

The Candy 4Way Phonics Program is that same phonics method that taught little Candy to read. Now updated for today's children, The Candy 4Way Phonics Program still combines those same four necessary phonics blueprints that spelled out reading success for little Candy.
 
Those four blueprints systematically combine (at the correct time, in the correct way, and in the correct doses) four basic strategies that enable children to read. Those four strategies are:

Linguistic, Synthetic, Analytic, and R'sA Phonics.  

First:  A child begins life by hearing human speech. That speech involves individual sounds blended together into words. A child hears those speech sounds often while he is still inside of his mother, before he is born. Of course, he doesn't know what those sounds mean, but eventually, one word at a time, he learns what they mean.

When a child takes this first step of hearing, speaking, and understanding speech sounds, he has actually taken the first step into what is known as Linguistic Phonics.  Linguistic Phonics is a planned-out network of phonics instruction that teaches the English Alphabet Code in a systematic, explicit manner, working from simple to complex.

Linguistic Phonics also includes mnemonnics (those rules and special terms such as "silent letters," "silent e," and beginning, middle, and ending phonemes" ).

Linguistic Phonics is the first blueprint necessary for a complete phonics education. Linguistic phonics is a system that enables a child with the skills necessary to match up the sounds that he hears with those same sounds as he sees them in print.  Linguistic phonics teaches a child, step by step to match up each phoneme (letter sound) to its written letter symbol.  Linguistic phonics goes on to help children blend letters and phonemes together, using a planned-out lesson structure, so that they can easily read words.  When a child no longer struggles to read the printed words on the page, he is in a better position to understand the printed words on the page.  A Linguistic Systematic Phonics plan should teach children how to read every word on every page. 

Second: Synthetic Phonics enables a child to blend (to synthesize) two letters together, and then three letters, and then word parts, and then words and then sentences. In fact, Synthetic Phonics is part of the "system" of Linguistic Phonics.

Third: Analytic Phonics empowers a child to take whole words and break them apart into smaller segments. In fact, when the Linguistic Phonics system is working properly, a child will learn to tear a word apart to its very smallest segment (one, individual letter sound) and then to put that word "back together again." (Note- Analytic Phonics must always be taught after a child has received a thorough Synthetic Phonics education.  Why?  Click here to find out. 

Fourth: The fourth blueprint presented to little Candy is what the people at Candy 4WAY Phonics call R'sA Phonics: Rhyme, Rhythm, and Alliteration.

Stories that rhyme are fun. Rhyme makes it easy for children to see like patterns of phonemes within words.  Of course, not all stories should rhyme.  Children also need to read non-rhyming excerpts written with phrases that are not rhythmic. A COMPLETE phonics program will present the R'sA blueprint in a systematic way, integrating it when it's needed and combining it correctly with the other three phonics blueprints.

To learn more about the phonics program that contains all four of these blueprints and an audio CD-R in which parents and teachers can hear every letter and every word and every sentence in every daily phonics lesson, click here

Clearly, if the majority of our teachers and parents followed a 4WAY Phonics Program, step by step, the literacy problem in this country would almost disappear.  Illiteracy is what happens when children do not learn how to sound out, from left to right,  every word on every page.

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