Why does the Bannatyne Program not use flash cards?
Because the Bannatyne Program has a far superior method of teaching the same skills that flash cards are supposed to teach. The Bannatyne Program uses Speed Reading, chunking, and integrated multi-sensory-motor functions in almost every lesson which enable students to achieve between 100 to 150 words per minute reading fluency, a rate of reading achievement that flash cards can never emulate. Furthermore, flipping flash cards is nothing like the processing of consecutive words on any printed page, and, all too often, they are made up of jumbled patterns of irregular phonemes and graphemes, syllables and random word structures that have never been linguistically explained or sequentially taught. Flash cards do NOT train efficient saccadic eye-movements, left-to-right tracking, or down-the-page line-by-line tracking.
