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Phonics Pathways has just won its third national award as "Best Phonics Program in America."
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June 2003 - LIVERMORE, CA: Dolores Hiskes has a mission: to teach people to read - to teach students that others have given up on, using her own blend of explicit phonics resources, gathered into a strong curriculum over more than three decades. In her work with ESL students, dyslexics, adults recovering from stroke and other illnesses-and ordinary preschool and elementary school students, she has achieved a 100% success rate. Her zeal for literacy through phonics began when she worked with her own children, both of whom had trouble learning to read by other methods. What's the secret to this amazing success? Hiskes points out that learning how to read should be just like learning how to play the piano: students learn individual letter sounds (or notes), combine them into simple syllables (or chords), and build increasingly complex words (or melodies) from these syllables. Her method has rescued many traditional phonics techniques and spelling shortcuts from obscurity, as she has gathered these old spelling rules and techniques from classic textbooks all over the world for over 30 years. In 1990, Hiskes put her system into a book: Phonics Pathways: Clear Steps to Easy Reading and Perfect Spelling. Though she's a home-based publisher with no previous publishing credentials, the book has become a strong seller, making the Quality Books Small Press Top 40 and 1000 Club. Now in its 8th edition, with thousands in print, the book has been used in Taiwan, Brunei, Korea, and Singapore, as well as throughout North America. In her own Silicon Valley region, Hiskes has seen her method adopted as the cornerstone of the Yes program, which has achieved phenomenal success matching members of the Stanford community with underprivileged youths from Pacific Islander and other non-English-speaking families. Phonics Pathways has just won its third national award as "Best Phonics Program in America." Hiskes is listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World as well as four other Marquis Who's Who directories as a result of her contributions to education.
Dolores G. Hiskes
(800) 852-4890
dor@dorbooks.com
http://www.dorbooks.com
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