What is 4WAY Phonics?
Candy’s 4WAY Phonics is just like it sounds: Phonics learning in 4 different ways. Phonics 4WAYS gives children not just one pathway, but four vital pathways to learn and practice phonics skills. Candy 4WAY Phonics is an ENTIRE phonics program containing those same four phonics pathways that were used to teach little Candy to read. The Candy 4WAY Phonics Reading Program overlaps those four strategies systematically for children ages 4 -10. They overlap at the correct time, in the correct way, and in the correct doses. Those Candy 4WAY Phonics pathways are: 1) Linguistic Phonics 2) Synthetic Phonics 3) Analytic Phonics and 4) R’sA Phonics (Rhyme, Rhythm, and Alliteration) 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 includes mnemonnics (those rules and special terms such as “silent letters,” “silent e,” and beginning, middle
