A parent just wrote and asked me some great questions and I wanted to share my answers to her with you. Here's what she wrote:

"Hello, and THANK YOU for writing a book that I am sure you had my child in mind for! We homeschool 3 of our 5 children and I am just starting to teach our 5 year old the basics to reading and wondered if I could use your program exclusively or is it designed to use in conjunction with traditional phonics programs? In other words do I need to supplement your program with regular phonics instruction?"

Here is what I replied

While Phonics Plus Five works beautifully with other programs, you can use it exclusively and there is no need to supplement it with any other program. The program has been designed so that the child learns all the key sound and letter clusters --without requiring any conscious memorization of complex rules. As you and your child work through the various levels, you will begin to see your child decode words he or she has never seen -- that is one of the clearest signs that he or she has begun to "crack the code" and intuit the sound patterns of the language. That is the surest, easiest and simplest way to learn to read successfully.

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