Readers different from other phonics readers?
In addition to using 4 Phonics strategies, Candy 4WAY Phonics includes “complex connective words” in its chart sentences and readers. Connective words are those words that connect ideas within the same sentence. As early as the 1980’s, linguists and educational book authors were beginning to notice that the readers used in American schools (those readers using the look/say method as well as those readers using some type of phonics method) were loaded with what they called: “popular readability formulas.” In a nutshell, this means that these readers were full of shortened sentences that purposely omitted “complex connective words.” Complex Connective words help sentences become more meaningful and more interesting. Complex Connective words give children sentences that can widen their expressive abilities and sharpen their comprehension skills. The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program uses connective words and complex connective words (subordinate clauses, infinitive phrases, and participial phras
