“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, former New York State Teacher of
the Year and author, Dumbing
Us Down and The Underground History of American Education
Anatomy of a Miracle
2009 Conventions
Reading: The Gateway to Independent Learning
Having a child who can easily read his textbooks frees both the parent and the child. The parent can use their time with other children and the child can read on his own schedule. Because reading textbooks is an essential skill to advancing in all other subjects this new found freedom spreads to these other subjects giving the child a huge advantage in school. As Ally, her picture below, put it, "I'm smart now."
Unfortunately, the average school takes six years to bring a child to functional literacy (fifth grade level). And even taking six years, a third of the students will fail to learn to read. Ally hit this problem in Kindergarten when her teacher told her she would have to repeat Kindergarten.
Instead,
she used Rocket Phonics for two months over the summer. When she entered
first grade that fall she tested at second grade level - two years gain in
two months! Ally is now in 7th grade and still one of the top readers in
her class.
Ally's results are not unusual, but they are clearly depend on using the
program. UCLA analyzed Rocket Phonics in 2000 and stated that the average
growth was about 1 year in three months and during that time only three
fourths of the program was used. So how easy
is it to use Rocket Phonics?