The U.S. Department of Education identifies five skills crucial to the process of learning how to read proficiently:

• Phonemic awareness: the ability to hear, identify, and play with individual sounds - or phonemes - in spoken words
• Phonics: the relationship between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language
• Fluency: the capacity to read text accurately and quickly
• Vocabulary: the words students must know to communicate effectively
• Comprehension: the ability to understand and gain meaning from what has been read*

The EZPhonics system includes a comprehensive set of learning materials, to provide your child with a well-rounded, exciting introduction to the English language. Four CD-ROMs provide the basis of the system, including introductory Phonics lessons, basic vocabulary lessons, reading lessons, and more! 3 printed workbooks and 9 audio CDs provide your child with sufficient material to use at home, in the car, and anywhere access to the main EZPhonics program is unavailable. By making use of a combination of materials, in varying formats, you will guarantee that your child is always eager for new EZPhonics lessons!

The ample phonetic study material found in EZPhonics ensures that your child will have an excellent basis on which to build future literacy knowledge. Phonetic concepts and lessons are made simple with the sights and sounds of the EZPhonics system. All pictures have been hand-selected specifically for use with EZPhonics, and professional voice recordings allow students to hear and identify accurate letter, blend, and word pronunciations.

The EZPhonics Reading Section boasts highly-acclaimed, proven material, in an enriched educational format that goes beyond the limitations of the basic ‘reader’?featuring many educational benefits not seen in other programs. The advantages of the EZPhonics Reading Section include:

• Superior Reading Materials
• High-Quality Audio Recordings
• Relevant Vocabulary Reviews
• Comprehension Exams
• Typing and Dictation Lessons

EZPhonics boasts fully-illustrated texts of the McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer and First Eclectic Reader. These well-loved traditional primers build each lesson upon the last, introducing new material at a comfortable pace, with engaging characters and strong moral values. EZPhonics also includes 70 stories from Aesop’s Fables. These exciting tales couple humor and adventure with prudent life-lessons. Rest assured: With EZPhonics, your child develops character as he or she develops valuable skills.
All lessons and stories in EZPhonics include high-quality recordings by professional voice-actors, to assist your child in his or her reading and to make the stories come alive!
Following every reading section, EZPhonics presents a series of basic quizzes, to build your child’s reading abilities. EZPhonics builds your child’s vocabulary through relevant-word study sections and three different types of vocabulary quizzes?insuring the retention of learned words. The lessons and stories in EZPhonics are then followed by brief comprehension tests, to build your child’s critical reading faculties and to guarantee the completion of each reading section.

EZPhonics fosters your child’s creativity, improves grammatical proficiency and challenges students to greater critical thinking, through a two-part introduction to writing. First, the basics of writing are introduced through our proprietary Sentence Builder feature. This EZPhonics exclusive allows students to play with the words of McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer and First Eclectic Reader to create sentences of their own, while holding them to the rules of correct grammar and sentence structure. EZPhonics then builds upon this invaluable groundwork with the EZPhonics Writing Section, in which students engage the stories of Aesop’s Fables to develop meaningful answers in their own words!

EZPhonics presents new words in a variety of formats, assisting in memorization and usage. EZPhonics Vocabulary Words are grouped as:

• Thematically-linked “Group Words”
• Synonyms & Antonyms
• Homonyms