Fun With Phonics^® is a comprehensive phonemic based literacy program that embraces the active world of a 3-4 year old as it targets the unique early reading strategies of this young age group. The experienced Fun With Phonics^® Educational Team of teachers and advisors has researched and selected the best components from proven early reading strategies and has incorporated the findings into an all-inclusive expanded literacy curriculum for the early learner with phonics as its core.

A child’s phonological awareness has been described as “…..the best single predictor of reading performance” (Gillon, 2003). The Fun With Phonics^® curriculum gives children a solid phonological foundation through interactive activities and authentic reading experiences that put phonics into play. The phonics activities introduce children to essential language concepts in a fun way, while fostering the excitement of early reading.

Children develop and learn at different rates with diverse learning styles and strengths (Gardner, 2000). The Fun With Phonics^® Educational Team has designed a unique learning system that emphasizes visual, auditory, and physical strategies specifically tailored for the 3-4 year old. The program focuses on teaching children the basic phonetic concepts they need to become readers. It offers a flexible format that allows for individual and group instruction that can be adapted to each child’s stage of literacy development.

Because children are unique and reading is a complex process, Fun With Phonics^® has taken the time to address each important layer involved in learning to read through its comprehensive early literacy curriculum. “Phonemic awareness and phonics instruction are necessary components in learning to read, but are certainly not sufficient. Students also need instruction in reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension” (National Reading Panel, 2003).

The National Reading Panel defines five areas of literacy instruction required to successfully teach children to read. These are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. While the first two areas deal with hearing and identifying sounds, connecting them to their symbols, and manipulating those sounds and symbols, the other areas focus on language. The Fun With Phonics^® curriculum incorporates these elements of language into literacy instruction in a developmentally appropriate manner. It does so by providing valuable teaching strategies and fun, hands-on activities that connect phonemic awareness and language to the world of a 3-4 year old. These strategies include music and movement, teacher shared big books, individual small readers, writing exercises and games.

Fun With Phonics^® is a connected approach to reading instruction. The Fun With Phonics® curriculum includes an instructor’s manual for the daily phonics lessons. It also provides a tutorial for instructional strategies in order to competently present the program’s language elements of literacy, utilize its evaluation strategies and tools, and present motivational elements that connect the world of literacy to the child’s school and home in a meaningful manner. Each section of the program has been developed with the latest research in literacy instruction methods in mind.

There is nothing more rewarding for a child than to own a life changing skill that can open doors to new adventures and experiences. Fun With Phonics^® is a complete early literacy program that will provide a solid knowledge base on which a child can build the skills to become a lifelong reader and writer.