Hooked on Phonics Review by Dr. Torgesen

Unless you’ve been residing on another planet during the last decade, the phrase “Get Hooked on Phonics!” should resonate as powerfully as any media mantra a hooked-on-TV nation has ever heard. The hugely promoted program enjoyed immense popularity during the late 1980s and early 1990s, not coincidentally appearing about the time that the whole-language approach …

Wikipedia Article on Hooked on Phonics

Hooked on Phonics is a commercial brand of educational materials, originally designed for reading education through phonetics. First marketed widely in the 1990s, it used a particular instructional design to teach letter-sound correlations (phonics) as part of children’s literacy. The program has since expanded to encompass a wide variety of media, including computer games, music, …

Hooked On Phonics Award Winning Program Teaches Kids to Read

Hooked On Phonics Helps to Improve Your Child’s Reading Skills Perfect for kids just learning, ready to jump ahead, or struggling to keep up.  Hooked on Phonics is the world-famous and award-winning education program teaching kids how to read for over twenty years. This carefully designed and perfected eight-week program will improve your child’s reading …