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Farmer Dan's Critters File Folder Games Package

       For just $4.97

          The Candy 4WAY Phonics Farmer Dan's Critters File Folder Games Package includes Multisensory LARGE

          Short-Vowel Flashcards/Wallcards, two "critters" games, over 50 CV blends, and 96 game cards that can

          also be used as flashcards.

          In addition, parents and teachers can select specific game cards 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.

          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.

At Candy 4WAY Phonics, we do NOT believe that children should begin their reading adventure by memorizing words from the Dolch Sight Word List. We do NOT believe that children build fluency by memorizing a page of text and learning to read that page faster and faster.

We DO believe that children develop fluency in the same way they learn to ride a bike: step-by-step, blending the steps together, practicing those blending steps over and over until, at last, “practice makes perfect!” You see, a child learns to ride a bicycle by first sitting up on the seat and extending his feet down to the pedals. He then learns to push the pedals around with his feet while a parent or older sibling steadies the back of the bike while running alongside him. Soon, that child learns to blend together the correct seating position, the proper turn of the pedals, and the accurate front-wheel steering until he/she can balance the bike with poise, fervor, and confidence.

In the same way, young children learn to read by first learning the alphabet letter sounds (not the alphabet letter names, but the sounds that the letters stand for). Next, they learn to blend those sounds together, and with repeated practice in sounding out all the blends in the words from left to right, fluent reading begins to take shape. Before they know it, they can recognize every word on every page instantly and accurately. Children who learn to sound out words know for certain all the individual letter sounds as well as all the letter blend sounds.

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. And their skills began way back when they were young – when they learned that letters stand for sounds and that those sounds can be blended together to create three-letter, short-vowel CVC words.



 

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