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Phonics games for preschool and first grade. A new reading program for elementary reading help.
Rocket Phonics - launching your child into reading success!
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"There isn't a better phonics program around than Dr. Guffanti's
Rocket Phonics. Follow these simple exercises and you will watch
a miracle unfold before your eyes."
-- John Taylor Gatto, Best
Selling Author
and New York State Teacher of the Year
Rocket Phonics is easy to order
--
just call 888-377-4664
Rocket Phonics creator, Stephen Guffanti, M.D.
Contact Us:
Rocket Phonics
P.O. Box 1411
Vista, CA 92085-1411
or
call:
(888) 377-4664
or email:
drphonics@rocketphonics.com
Watch Your Miracle Unfold With Rocket Phonics
Rocket Phonics is a research-based, scientifically proven method of teaching reading. Hands down the best phonics program available today, it’s fast, fun, easy-to-use, over three times as effective, and half the cost of competing programs. Rocket Phonics is so effective your child will be reading by the end of the very first lesson!
Created for children ages 4-10, Rocket Phonics turns reading lessons into a world of fun with games, riddles, jokes and classic stories.
Students shine
using Rocket Phonics — Outperform others by
nearly 4 to 1!
In a recent study, 43 home-schooled students using Rocket Phonics gained in just three months an impressive 8.9 months in reading skill! This means if your 5-year old used Rocket Phonics for a year, he would be reading at nearly fourth grade level.
UCLA Professor James Catterall, who analyzed the study, found the Rocket Phonics students’ reading improvement was nearly four times that of the study’s other students, who used methods such as Hooked on Phonics* and The Phonics Game.*
"No one who did
more than one (Rocket Phonics) lesson
failed to improve his or her skills."
— Professor James Catterall,
UCLA Graduate School of Education
(*Hooked
on Phonics is a trademark of Gateway Learning. The Phonics
Game is a trademark of ImaginEngine Direct Publishing.)
If
you'll play with your child 30 minutes a day,
Rocket Phonics can teach your child to read
Rocket Phonics’ results
are consistent. Whether it is students in a study, students
in classrooms or homeschool groups, or individual children
in the home, students soar with Rocket Phonics. Look at
the results from a classroom teacher, who went on to use
Rocket Phonics to tutor homeschool children.
“I used Rocket Phonics in my first
grade classroom, and was very impressed with the reading
progress of my students. At the end of our first
quarter, half of my students were reading at second grade
level!
I was also pleased to find that, unlike
many reading programs, Rocket Phonics is easy to use.
The directions are easy to follow and the program requires
minimal preparation time. Adapting the program
for use in my classroom was simple.
In addition, Rocket Phonics offers systematic,
explicit instruction. Students begin by learning
the first nine sounds in the Initial Teaching Alphabet.
Then they blend those sounds together to form individual
words. Before they know it, they are reading!
Rocket Phonics empowers children, which generates an excitement
about reading -- especially for those who previously have
not experienced success in reading.
I found Rocket
Phonics to be an effective part of a balanced literacy
program in my classroom. In fact, I am so impressed
with this curriculum that I recently began using it to
teach reading classes to home-schooled children.
It’s a simple, effective phonics program that I
would recommend to any primary teacher or homeschool parent.”
--
Patty Roberts, first grade teacher
Why we developed Rocket Phonics:
After years of research and tutoring and teaching thousands of children, the Guffantis developed Rocket Phonics, the reading program that combines phonics and sight words in a revolutionary way, with revolutionary results.
Why did we create a revolutionary way?
You see, by age 5, your child has a spoken vocabulary of 5,000 – 6,000 words, even if he or she cannot yet read at all. Traditionally, you start to teach your child the sounds the letters make. But then your child begins to look at words such as who, and you say, “Well, the w is silent and the o sounds like oo.” Or your child looks at when, and you say, “Okay, here the h is silent. Then you decide to read numbers, and you look at the word one. “All right,” you say, “Here the o makes the wuh sound, and the e….” Just imagine how your child feels!
English isn’t a logical, phonetic language; letters
have more than one sound, or can be silent. All these different
sounds can make learning to read a frustrating guessing
game for children. Some children even do whatever they can
to avoid reading altogether.
However, with Rocket Phonics, English becomes a logical, phonetic language in which each letter has only one sound. Rocket Phonics gives your child helpers. The helpers show your child how to pronounce each word so your child can read all the words in his or her spoken vocabulary! As your child learns, and no longer needs the helpers, we gradually remove them. The Rocket Phonics book includes classic stories written at first to sixth grade reading level.
With
Rocket Phonics, before you know it, your child is an independent
reader
Rocket Phonics works because your kids never have to guess while
reading!
These are the four
biggest myths about learning to read that block most readers:
Phonics is learning rules which tell you when a letter has a sound or not.
Sight words are learned by memorizing a list of words, and they aren't taught in a real phonics program.
Sight words are simply non-phonetic words.
Phonics is better than sight words.
The
plain truth is great readers have both strong
phonics and a great number of sight words.
Think about it. If you phonetically
sound out every letter on this web page would you remember
the beginning of the page by the time you got here?
Reading comprehension depends on reading fast enough to
remember the beginning of the page. Sight words
are simply words you have decoded often enough to recognize
by sight. Some are phonetic; some aren't.
Wouldn't you agree that you need both?
Reading programs
fail because their phonics system is not strong enough
to help your child develop sight words
The purpose of phonics is to allow a reader to decode any
word he or she doesn't recognize. For the beginning reader,
that is almost all the words he is trying to read. Most
reading programs use a rule-based approach and then
have to write books with words that fit those rules. Once
the child reads anything outside of those books he is surprised
by the exceptions to the rules. Each time his decoding efforts
fail he is less interested in trying again. In essence,
the child doesn't fail to read, he is just using a phonics
system too weak to help him consistently decode. It is reading
words in sentences that gives the child the context to attach
meaning to little function words, even those like The or And.
Weak phonics systems have two causes: inadequate phonemic
awareness and phonics rules with too many exceptions. Phonemic
awareness teaches the sounds of the language. Only then
can phonics, which links those sounds to a letter, help.
If your child is taught a series of rules with lots of exceptions,
then he will be unsure of the exact sound of every letter
he is reading and he will have to guess. Each wrong guess
degrades his confidence until he doesn't want to try any
more. As a result of weak phonics systems,
68% of our children read below grade level and nearly half
the adults in America are functionally illiterate.
Rocket Phonics starts with fun children's games that both
test and teach phonemic awareness. When your child begins
to use the program, he will learn his phonics system by
playing games until he masters the concepts. The Rocket
Phonics program turns the phonics system into helpers and the helpers
tell your child the exact sound of each letter until the
word becomes stored in the child's visual memory - (they are now sight words for him).
It turns out that the secret to learning
sight words is to keep the child reading. This is the
task of the phonics system. Rocket Phonics' program takes
the guesswork out of decoding until your child gains the
words as sight words, and decoding is no longer necessary
for those words.
Why will my child do so well with Rocket Phonics?
Because
Rocket Phonics has the
strongest phonics system ever invented
In
fact, the Rocket Phonics method is so unique it has
a patent pending. Look at how we handle non-phonetic
words. We color-code each word. The blue letters keep
their sound. If the letter doesn't keep its color (blue)
it doesn't keep its sound and the true sound is underneath.
The child sees the word correctly spelled and decodes
the word every time.
Kids use phonics to
read words they don't recognize. The words they do recognize
are their sight words. When they are fast enough to be
fluent (reading at roughly the speed at which they talk), their reading comprehension increases dramatically.
What's
The Cost For This Incredible Program?
For only 3 payments of $54, you and your children
can experience the magic of Rocket Phonics.
Of course, Rocket Phonics is completely
satisfaction guaranteed. And now Rocket Phonics is even
a better value than ever, too:
Each Rocket Phonics kit comes with:
2 Rocket Phonics books
Two sets of symbol cards
Bingo chips
Peeker
Word lists for testing
Helpful teaching tips
As
a special gift with your purchase you will receive three
free bonuses valued at over $100
Free
Bonus Gift #1: Free
28 supplements: With your purchase, you’ll
receive
by email free each week for 28 weeks
a supplement to your kit. You and your child will
be thrilled with each week’s additional stories, riddles,
games, beginning reading tips and
more. ($69.95 value)
Free
Bonus Gift #2: Two Rocket Phonics
Treasure Hunts: The rhyming clues are
written both with and without Rocket Phonics’ unique
helpers, so very early readers can
read beyond their grade levels to figure out clues and find
the treasure. Your
children will
love these.
Prizes, such as sticky hands, kazoos,
etc., are all included and ready for fun.
($16.95
value)
Free
Bonus Gift #3: Rocket Phonics
Word-Find Treasure Hunt and the Rocket
Phonics Phrase Game: Your child will delight in finding
and reading one word or phrase at
a time with these games emailed to you. ($19.95
value)
Sincerely, 
Stephen Guffanti, M.D.
Rocket Phonics® has a patent pending.
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