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Tag Archives: Samuel Blumenfeld
Miss Cora & the Kentucky Mountain People
The Kentucky Girl (commencement speech on graduating from teacher’s college) While other girls were posing, their charms being exhibited, their characteristics discussed. There has lived and walked, among the evergreen pines and the sturdy oaks, of the mountains of Kentucky, a creature … Continue reading
Posted in education, homeschooling, Phonics, Reading, teaching, tutoring
Tagged adult illiteracy, Alpha-Phonics, Cora Wilson Stewart, Dyslexic no more: Saved by the ABC's, Kentucky Moonlight Schools, Meg Rayborn Dawson, Samuel Blumenfeld, systematic phonics, you can teach your kids to read at home
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Censorship & Propaganda – The Theft of Voice
If you have spent much time around children, especially quarrelling children, you may have observed disputes over who gets to explain what just happened. Here are some examples which I have witnessed. Children rushing toward me with their mouths full … Continue reading
Posted in education, homeschooling, Homescoolers academically perform very well, Phonics, Reading, schools, teaching, tutoring, Uncategorized
Tagged Ain't I a Woman, Alpha-Phonics, frederick douglass, History of American Education, Homeschooling, josiah henson, propaganda, reading, reading and writing, Samuel Blumenfeld, slave narratives, Sojourner Truth, systematic phonics, teaching reading, Uncle Tom's Cabin, voice, you can teach your kids to read at home
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DYSLEXIC NO MORE: Saved by the ABC’s — Research names PHONICS the Winner
Mandates, Dollars & Paper Trails (From the Upcoming Book: Dyslexic No More: Saved by the ABC’s by Meg Rayborn Dawson) “It was clear to me that we did not really have a clear idea or understand how children should be taught … Continue reading
Posted in education, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Reviews of Alpha-Phonics, Synthetic Phonics, teaching, tutoring
Tagged A Apple Pie, Homeschooling, How to Tutor, National Reading Panel, National Research Council, Phonics First, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, Reading Wars, Sally Shaywitz, Samuel Blumenfeld, Teaching Reading in the Homeschool, Why Johnny Can't Read, you can teach your kids to read at home
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The Grandmother who taught Three Generations to Read
This is the testimony of a classically-trained Grandmother who recommends Alpha-Phonics for teaching reading. (from Mary Beck Rutkowski, September 2021) I was blessed to hear this grandmother’s story. She granted me the privilege of sharing her memories here, which I’m … Continue reading
Reading War Champions & How to Teach Reading – Flesch & Blumenfeld
“According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of U.S. adults 16-74 years old – about 130 million people – lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.” (Forbes Magazine, September 9, 2020) How can we … Continue reading
Social Media and a New Type of Learner
In an article from Signature Magazine (May 1970) the well-loved American news broadcaster, Walter Cronkite from CBS Evening News, questioned the sufficiency of television news programs. He believed that the limited reading ability of the American populous (in 1970) was not … Continue reading
Learning before we Teach (What I learned from Sam, #5)
Samuel Blumenfeld (author of Alpha-Phonics: A Primer for Beginning Readers) was an independent thinker on a solitary quest, and a master at research. (The indexes of his books will show this.) Devoted to improving American literacy, he became a dedicated … Continue reading
Old Foes & New Conflicts in American Schools (What I learned from Sam, #4)
or… New Battles in an Old Conflict Educational battlegrounds, in our present-day public schools, stem from similar conflicts from our Colonial days. Originally, Massachusetts Puritans enforced Biblical teaching in support of a Calvinistic worldview. Eventually, these beliefs … Continue reading
Legislating Religion in New England (What I learned from Sam, #3)
In the year 1620 a group of Puritans set sail from Plymouth, England, on a venture for freedom in the New World. They were armed with utopian ideas, hoping to escape from post-Reformation tyrants. They wanted to be self-governed, and … Continue reading
Who Taught George Washington? (What I learned from Sam, #2)
Who taught George Washington? How about Benjamin Franklin? Thomas Jefferson? Do you care to guess? Lawrence A. Cremin (author of “American Education: The Colonial Experience 1607-1783”) describes the signers of the Declaration of Independence and of the U.S. Constitution as … Continue reading
Posted in Declaration of Independence, George Washington's education, homeschooling, Thomas Jefferson, tutoring, U.S. Constitution
Tagged Colonial schools, History of American Education, Homeschooling, How to Tutor, Samuel Blumenfeld, Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Signers of the U.S. Constitution
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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
