Your Child Can't Read Because His Teacher Cannot Teach Phonics Reading Skills

Today, there is a national reading crisis in our schools in America. It is imperative that schools, educators and parents return to phonics and phonemic awareness methods of reading instruction. In 1955 Rudolf Flesch wrote a nationally best seller - Johnny Can’t Read. In 1981 he wrote a follow up edition entitled - Johnny Still Can’t Read. Today, according to national education statistics Johnny still cannot read. The real question that needs to be answered, “Will Johnny ever learn to read”? When more than 40% of our students in our public schools are either completely illiterate or functionally illiterate, it is time to address the root cause of this problem. It appears that the current practices and methodologies of whole language or the look-and-say method of teaching reading are not working. This book addresses the major factors influencing the poor reading performance of students. The whole language reading advocates have held our schools and students hostage for the past 75 years with their look-and-say methodology of reading.