Why Phonics Alone Doesn’t Work

Study after study has confirmed that Dyslexic students need explicit, systematic, logical, instruction in phonics in order to overcome reading problems and create new circuits in the brain that cause more effective reading. This seems clear-cut enough, but...

The problem is two-fold.

First, your school may not provide or even believe in the effectiveness of phonics learn to read programs.

Second, almost all phonics based programs have inherent weaknesses. Many of these weaknesses were pointed out by the prestigious National Reading Panel that was appointed to do comprehensive reading research in 2000.

Some Major Weaknesses of Phonics-based Reading Methods:

• The syllable approach to decoding words is overly complicated and has many inaccuracies
• There are a higher number of exceptions to the rules taught in phonics programs than there are rules themselves
• Most phonetic marking systems seem to promote poor spelling skills

So what do you do? Your student or child needs an explicit, systematic phonics program in order to learn effectively, and yet most phonics reading programs have so many weaknesses that many schools and teachers refuse to teach them in the schools.

The Entirely New Simplified 3-Step System for Learning to Read
A few years ago a reading teacher and administrator was pondering the immense reading challenges we have in the US. Over 60% of grade 10 students demonstrated a dysfunctional reading level. US education rankings were and are dropping constantly. Over 50% of families have someone experiencing a serious reading problem.

These problems and his own feedback from his students, opened his eyes to the tremendous need for a better solution.

Because of the need for explicit phonics instruction to help learning challenged students, and the weaknesses of these phonics methods, along with his own students complaining that learning and marking syllables was the thing they hated most about learning to read...he created an entirely new simplified, easier, method for learning to read--the 3 Step System.

The revolutionary 3 Step Method includes almost all the strengths of traditional phonics instruction; explicit, systematic and simple. At the same time it eliminates the major weaknesses of phonics instruction that were found by the Panel.

No more confusing syllables. No more spelling weaknesses. Just 3 easy steps, and 8 simple rules.
At the same time students are learning to read faster, their spelling skills and word fluency are properly developed and improved.

Our school-tested and proven program delivers the most complete and effective method ever available for teaching both regular and challenged students how-to-read.