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The Science of Reading – Why we Should Read to our Children
Build Vocabularies: WORDS ARE FOR THINKING! When you have an idea, do you have enough words to express it? If you need a new word, where do you find it? If you answered that you “just know it from memory,” … Continue reading
Posted in education, homeschooling, Phonics, Reading, schools, teaching, tutoring
Tagged education, Homeschooling, How to Teach Reading, phonemic awareness, phonics, Phonics or Whole Language??, reading, Samuel Blumenfeld, science of reading, systematic phonics, teaching Alpha-Phonics, teaching reading, Teaching Reading in the Homeschool, you can teach your kids to read at home
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Learning to Read Versus Learning to Love Reading
[We found this very interesting and valuable article on the website “Tulsa Kids” and would like to share it with you!) December 27, 2023 Dr. Anita Ede Learning how to read is a major accomplishment for a child. Once achieved, … Continue reading
Posted in education, homeschooling, Phonics, Reading, teaching
Tagged Alpha-Phonics, Homeschooling, How to Teach Reading, phonemic awareness, phonics, Phonics or Whole Language??, reading, Samuel Blumenfeld, systematic phonics, teaching reading, Teaching Reading in the Homeschool, you can teach your kids to read at home
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The Special Reading Group & Phonics Cards for Christmas?
In 1955 Rudolf Flesch published his book, “Why Johnny Can’t Read”. He blamed the reading programs of the day. He explained that English is an alphabetic language, and that in order to learn to read efficiently students must learn to … Continue reading
Posted in education, education reform, homeschooling, Phonics, Reading, Reviews of Alpha-Phonics, schools, teaching, tutoring
Tagged Alpha-Phonics, Anna Gillingham, Homeschooling, How to Teach Reading, phonemic awareness, phonics, Phonics or Whole Language??, reading, Samuel Blumenfeld, systematic phonics, teaching reading, Teaching Reading in the Homeschool, you can teach your kids to read at home
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Inventing the Alphabet – A Sound Symbol System of Writing
Why is Phonics called Phonics & What does this Have to do with Reading Instruction? It is not difficult to guess that the word phonics is connected to the Phoenicians, but what is the significance of this and how does … Continue reading
The Savant who Knew his Mother’s Love
Joe and I are different from other people. We just accept things when God puts them before us. It’s like accepting what you have to do in life. Things come at you, and you don’t say, “Am I going … Continue reading
2022 Edition of ALPHA-PHONICS — NEW INFO ON DYSLEXIA
I have been teaching reading for over 40 years, and it is only in my recent history that I have heard about children with dyslexia diagnoses. And I hear of them at an alarming rate! I responded by taking on … Continue reading
Phonics Saves a Struggling Reader — She’s now a Global Change Agent
“Unfortunately, I not only know about the reading problem in our schools, but I am well aware of how it feels to be labeled a reading failure. Feeling is a lot more acute than just knowing.” Mary didn’t start out … Continue reading
Posted in Dyslexic No More, education, homeschooling, Intensive Phonics, Jane & Sally, Mary Burkhardt, Phonics, Reading, teaching, teaching phonics, tutoring
Tagged Dyslexic no more: Saved by the ABC's, Phonics or Whole Language??, Samuel Blumenfeld, systematic phonics, Teaching Reading in the Homeschool, Why Johnny Can't Read, you can teach your kids to read at home
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Multiculturalism & the Loss of Americanism
Exploring the Homeschooling Arguments of the 80’s & 90’s – Reviewing old Editorials in the Light of our Present Day The Blumenfeld Education Letter Revisited Vol 1, No 1 (pt. 1) – Sept. 1986 (NOTE: The following editorial has been quoted … Continue reading
Posted in Americanism, education, education reform, God Bless America, homeschooling, Multicultural Education, multiculturalism, Phonics, Reading, teaching, Teaching Moral Anarchy, The Blumenfeld Education Letter, tutoring
Tagged Alpha-Phonics, History of American Education, Homeschooling, How to Teach Reading, phonemic awareness, Samuel Blumenfeld, systematic phonics, you can teach your kids to read at home
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How to SUCCEED – or FAIL – at Teaching Reading
I found an old self-printed book which has some very useful information about teaching reading and I think some of the ideas presented there are worth sharing. The book (How the Alphabet Works: a handbook for teaching someone to read … Continue reading
Posted in Christian education, classical education, Functional Illiteracy, grandmother teacher, Home Schooling – Why Do It?, homeschooling, How not to teach reading, How to teach reading, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Reading, teaching, tutoring
Tagged look-say method, Phonics or Whole Language??, Samuel Blumenfeld, sight method, systematic phonics, the problem with look-say instruction, the problem with the sight method, the problem with whole word instruction, whole word method, you can teach your kids to read at home
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The Stigma of Dyslexia
Sometime, somewhere, within the history of American education, it was decided that it was not good to write with the left hand. Writing this way was often punished. I learned of just such an example, in the most unusual of … Continue reading
Posted in Dr. Neil Alexander-Passe, education, homeschooling, left-handed punishment, Phonics, Reading, Stigma of Dyslexia, teaching, tutoring
Tagged Alpha-Phonics, Dyslexic no more: Saved by the ABC's, Homeschooling, How to Teach Reading, Samuel Blumenfeld, systematic phonics, you can teach your kids to read at home
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Alpha-Phonics
The Alphabet Song!
Water on the Floor
Alpha-Phonics the Book on CD Rom
Blumenfeld Oral Reading Assessment Test
How To Tutor
How To Tutor Cursive Handwriting Workbook
