In order to learn to read you must first learn to decode. Up until now this has been the most difficult part of learning to read. Now, for the first time, learning to decode is the easiest part.

Based on how people learn their native language, Phonics Mnemonics presents all of the elements for decoding Standard American English. For most people these are learned in from 4 to 10 weeks along with 720 sight vocabulary words. It is normal for first grade students who begin the year with Phonics Mnemonics and complete this program to read somewhere between 2^nd and 7^th grade levels by year’s end.

For the mind to retain information you must:

1. See it,
2. Hear it,
3. Feel it.

People learn easily and quickly when the information is:

4. A fun play approach with no teaching,
5. The pieces are connected,
6. The first and last items in a series,
7. Silly – ridiculous – ludicrous.
8. Passive listening like children’s bedtime stories,

Nightly passive listening to the phonics-based bedtime stories is the key to success.

Although the son of a schoolteacher, Vann Alton Daniels was a poor reader. He struggled to complete his studies and dropped out of college twice.

At the age of thirty-three he taught himself phonics and was finally able to read well enough to be successful in college. He graduated cum laude with a B.A., M.A. degrees in Music Education and psychology (MFT) and credentials to teach and be a school counselor.

Out of Vann Alton Daniels' success with phonics came Phonics Mnemonics. It is dedicated to your success in reading and in life.

Long and Short Vowels