Building Blocks Phonics is designed to improve anyone's literacy. All forty-four English language sounds are taught in a complete, explicit, and systematic curriculum. The sequential teaching modules give students the why behind the how. The goal is to make reading an automatic skill. Every student's literacy is advanced by strengthening comprehension through phonics rules and spelling patterns. With this newfound power, students are free to make mistakes and recover positively. This confidence turns them into quintessential academic risk-takers, allowing for benchmark accomplishments like reading confidently to their grandchildren and applying for fulfilling jobs. All members of adult literacy organizations-directors, education coordinators, volunteer teachers, and basic literary students-will by empowered by and will benefit from the comprehensive instruction provided in Complete Phonics and Spelling Manual Instructor Book.