The Phonics Formula

a research based approach for teaching anyone to read and spell

Welcome to THE PHONICS FORMULA, the revolutionary new product designed to help you help your students to read. Equally adaptable to the classroom and home use, this versatile program puts the rules and structure of the English Language at your fingertips. The user-friendly format is what makes this program so different. In many programs, the learning curve for the instructor can be quite daunting. In THE PHONICS FORMULA, we have given you the ability to learn what to teach and how to teach it in an incredibly easy-to-use format. You are provided with 12 volumes, each building on skills and knowledge learned in previous volumes. Best of all, THE PHONICS FORMULA is designed for all ages and skill levels. From the pre-school child just learning his sounds to the fifth grader (or even adult!) struggling with reading or spelling, THE PHONICS FORMULA can bring your student success.

THE PHONICS FORMULA provides you with the rules required for giving a solid foundation to any child. The skills are sequenced from simple to complex so that new skills can build on previous knowledge. The books demonstrate, in a simple manner, how to teach letters and sounds, how to develop phonemic awareness, how to blend and segment sound, how sounds combine into syllables, how the sounds of English are paired with spelling patterns, spelling and phonics rules, and more.

Students with dyslexia or students with other language related learning disabilities require direct, explicit, systematic synthetic phonics instruction as provided in THE PHONICS FORMULA. This type of instruction allows students to decode and spell with success. Students also exhibit significant improvement in their ability to comprehend text when systematic phonics instruction is presented early. Furthermore, recent research studies have shown that systematic phonics instruction improved the ability of good readers to spell across all grade levels. Simply put, THE PHONICS FORMULA will help your child read and spell.

In the classroom . . .

Teachers will love THE PHONICS FORMULA for it's ease-of-use as well as for its structure. With the lessons provided in its pages, you will learn what is involved in teaching the code to your students as well as how to teach it.

THE PHONICS FORMULA is essentially an instructional program on the structure of the English Language. THE PHONICS FORMULA is research-based, following the principles of effective reading instruction outlined by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

All students benefit from instruction that is direct, explicit and systematic. Knowledge of how the system works and how to teach it is a necessity for all teachers, special education staff and instructional assistants.

In the home . . .

Parents will find THE PHONICS FORMULA to be an answer to their prayers. Thousands of parents in the U.S. have found themselves alone when they are faced with their child’s inability to read.

Systematic phonics and how to teach it has been a carefully guarded secret in this country. Even teachers find it difficult to gain this information as it hasn’t been taught in colleges for years. Elementary school teachers spend most of their careers gradually discovering phonics and spelling rules and adding them to their instruction to aid students experiencing reading difficulty. Even special education teachers are not all familiar with systematic phonics. Teaching these skills has become a lost art.

We believe parents want to help. They want reliable information on phonics and how to teach it. We believe that once parents are made aware of the system, the process of teaching phonics, they will, in turn, be able to help their children learn to read. Parents will be able to provide appropriate instruction, make appropriate corrections and reminders, provide practice, remind their children of spelling rules and continuously guide and monitor their child’s reading and writing progress. Armed with the knowledge of how to teach reading, parents will be able to prevent reading failure in their own child and promote success in reading and spelling.

No longer is there need to feel helpless and ineffective when your child is failing to learn to read.