The benefits of reading make up a list that goes a long way since people can remember. Reading is a very worthy pastime and an even more rewarding experience. The experience of reading is an invaluable source of informal education which can be taken as an advantage by any person who takes pleasure in it. A well read person is definitely never caught off guard in any conversation and can mostly relate with anything that he or she encounters in life

Unfortunately, there are people who, as opposed to those who dislike reading, can but do not know how to read. They were never given the chance to an education that would teach them to read and write, leaving them to grow up totally disadvantaged by their handicap.

This is why phonics, a system used to teach children how to read in their early educational years, has been developed to work for adults. Thus, adult phonics has become a new method that would facilitate self-teaching strategies for illiterate adults who want to learn how to read. In adult phonics, learners are exposed to a system where, instead of a teacher, an audio-visual guide is present to teach the adult the basics of reading using phonetic sounds and symbols. By simply presenting English symbols and associating them with the appropriate sounds, illiterate adults are equipped with the basic tools needed to identify words and how they are pronounced. This way, these adults no longer need to be present in the classroom setting and are able to better suit their learning needs in the proper schedule and their own preferred pacing.

To these adults, reading is more than just a hobby. It is a basic need for them to be fulfilled in order that they may finally