Is Public Education Necessary? by Samuel L Blumenfeld (Paperback - 1985)

Is public education necessary?

BLUMENFELD, Samuel L.

Paradigm Co.

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How To Tutor, by famed writer Samuel L. Blumenfeld, first available 38 years ago has without change continued to be an outstanding resource to teach the Three R's. It has not changed because it works so well. It is a whole school in one book for only $ 29.95. Its three parts are (1) Sam Blumenfeld's amazingly easy to teach systematic, intensive phonics READING instruction program. (2) His effective CURSIVE HANDWRITING program and (3) his equally effective ARITHMETIC PROGRAM. Has been used by 100,000's parents, teachers and tutors. Mary Pride, leading homeschooling materials reviewer, calls it a best value. 298 pages. How To Tutor works at ALL ages. Anyone who can read can teach the 3 R's with it. WHY IS HOW TO TUTOR IMPORTANT? Dr. Blumenfeld warns: Most parents wait until their child is having difficulty at school before they think of providing remediation. Sometimes the child is so far behind, so confused, so frustrated by not learning in the first two grades, that the remedial program looks long and difficult. However, proper tutoring at the preschool level or in the first two grades, as a preventive measure, can make sure that the child has the foundation on which to build achievement. How To Tutor provides parents and teachers with a complete instructional program: step-by-step lesson plans in the Three R's. It originally was to help public school students. Since then the continued decline in many plublic schools made HOMESCHOOLING much more important. Homeschool families discovered what a gem this book is for them. (1) READING: The big problem today. How To Tutor shows how to avoid the confusion in teaching reading that prevails in our schools today. 117 complete lessons. Contains everything you need to teach your student to be a top reader. You learn the dirty little secret professional educators keep from you: It is really EASY TO TEACH READING! There are only 44 sounds (Phonograms) you need to teach your student to build a high level of reading skill. (2) CURSIVE HANDWRITING: Grandparents today are often shocked to learn that in many schools cursive is not taught. With How To Tutor you are given all the tools you need to teach this important skill with ease. Here is another little secret: Cursive can be taught BEFORE printing (ball &amp; stick). There are only THREE basic strokes involved in cursive handwriting. Most children can learn these at a surprisingly early age. Learning about this will amaze you. 73 complete lessons. (3)ARITHMETIC: Quoting Dr. Blumenfeld: In teaching arithmetic it is important to convey the genius of the system itself. Next to the alphabet, it is the greatest mental tool ever devised by man. We should approach the subject with the excitement it deserves. Any teacher who makes arithmetic dull does so because he does not understand its beautiful simplicity, logic and facility which permits us to do so much with so little. HTT Arithmetic covers addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, weights, time, and the calender. Everything up to just before geometry and algebra. All this in 67 easy lessons. FINAL WORD: Anyone can use these lesson plans: students, parents, teachers, tutors, retired teachers, housewives and grandparents. Tutoring can be a good way to earn extra money while aiding people who need help to improve their reading, handwriting and arithmetic ability. Some of the claims we make may appear unbelievable. They are TRUE. We have heard from countless users who canot say enough about HTT's simplicity and effectiveness. See for yourself. Moneyback guarantee. HTT also available at Amazon in: How To Tutor eBook - CD ROM version (ISBN 9780941995474- $ 17.95) and Plastic Comb Bound version (ISBN: 9780941995252 - $ 29.95)

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Presents the case for a return to phonics and provides a step-by-step primer that parents can use to prepare their children for school - and adult life - by teaching them to read themselves.

New Illiterates and How You Can Keep Your Child from Becoming One

Blumenfeld, Samuel

In September 1993, Americans were stunned to learn that half the adult population -- some 90 million Americans -- have such poor literacy skills that they can scarcely cope with the demands of our high-tech economy. How could so many Americans emerge from their education so poorly equipped in basic literacy? Blumenfield answers that question in his no-holds-barred examination of the decline of literacy in America and the deliberate dumbing down of its people. He puts the blame squarely on the shoulders of the educational leaders who decided early in this century to change the purpose of education from its traditional academic function to a radical social one. High literacy was an obstacle to their progressive agenda, so the teaching of reading had to be changed to produce a more socially desirable result. The results for the nation have been disastrous. Whole Language is the latest manifestation of that progressive plan. It adds a whole new dimension to the reading process: subjectivism and deconstructionism. In addition, it has become an integral part of Outcome-Based Education, Thus, it is a far more lethal form of pedagogy than anything that has preceded it. For all intents and purposes, whole language is a way of preventing children from becoming fluent, accurate phonetic readers. It is a new way of creating reading disability, academic confusion, and learning frustration, a new way of crippling a child's linguistic development. This is a book that parents, concerned with the education of their children, must read if they are to avoid putting their children at risk in an academic system that has completely lost its moral and academic bearings. The sad truth is that public education has destroyed the American dream for countless numbers of young people by preventing them from acquiring those academic skills needed to achieve success. Once you read this book, you'll never be fooled by the educators again.

The Whole Language/OBE Fraud: The Shocking Story of How America Is Being Dumbed Down by Its Own Education System

The Death of Reality: How a Conspiracy of Fools Has Laid Claim to the Destiny of a Nation

Dawson, Lawrence

Sociology

This book is out of print and no longer available

How To Tutor Extra Large Size Type Student Lesson book

Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Children's Books

This item has been replaced by a newer version. Enter this ISBN on Amazon: 9780941995344 to find it. Now ONLY $ 19.95! The content is IDENTICAL to the Little Companion Readers you have known and loved for 25 years. (The only difference in the new version:The 10 Readers are Perfect Bound together in one book: You Won't lose any of the 10 books and they won't come unstapled!) This is the Alpha-Phonics and How To Tutor Little Companion Readers Book to accompany phonics reading instruction in either Alpha-Phonics or How To Tutor by Samuel L. Blumenfeld. Each of the 10 Readers contained in the NEW BOOK has a short story which is ideal for little beginners. The Readers are coordinated to where the student is as he/she progresses through either Alpha-Phonics or How To Tutor. First Reader covers short A lessons, Second Reader covers short E lessons and so on throughout the first 77 lessons. Very popular with teachers and students. Many children say even with the First Reader: OH! Mommy, I am reading my own book! Economical, durable &amp; reusable. The Readers are in large type so as to be easy for little beginners and are short in length: 6 to 10 pages. They challenge the student without overdoing it. The Readers contain only the words the student has already learned up to that point. Eight have a complete short story that the beginners in particular really enjoy. The other two have lists of practice sentences. After the first 77 lessons the student, while still learning from the remaining lessons in either Alpha-Phonics or How To Tutor, is capable of working with a wide variety of outside practice reading books. The first five Readers in the Book deal with one short vowel each: a, e, i, o, and u. Book one for example deals with the first 12 lessons. Reader # 6: Short vowels with digraphs like ch, sh and wh, through lesson 35. Reader # 7 More Short vowels, through lesson 42. And so on. Reader #8 Short vowels mixed, through lesson 49. Reader # 9 Short vowels through lesson 57. Reader # 10. Short vowels through lesson 71. A BONUS is that the book of Readers aid in developing comprehension as you go. You just ask the student questions about what they have read in the story. What was the story about? What happened first? Last? You go from one Reader to the next as you progress through either Alpha-Phonics or How To Tutor's reading instruction section. (More info on the READERS in a moment) Amazon also has available the Alpha-Phonics and How To Tutor Phonics Workbook (ISBN: 9780941995337- $ 19.95). To accompany Alpha-Phonics or How To Tutor. The Alpha-Phonics reading program textbook itself is available on Amazon.com (ISBN: 9780941995320: $ 24.95). This complete phonics instruction program works at all ages, especially little beginners. Just order from Amazon.com. The Readers and Phonics Workbook, while optional, are considered by many parents to be very helpful to do a great job teaching their children. A final product Amazon offers which really helps many Moms teach their children good, solid phonics is the Alpha-Phonics 128 Lesson Video DVD (ISBN 9780941995238 - only $ 8.00) This is a DVD of a 2-hour Workshop Sam conducted during which he went through EVERY one of the 128 Lessons in Alpha-Phonics and ALL 117 lessons in the How To Tutor reading instruction section. Mom can sit in her living room and have Sam take her through the Alpha-Phonics with the book in her lap just as if she were attending the workshop herself. Using some or all of these accompanying materials help make it easy to assure a complete success teaching children to be excellent readers. The Alpha-Phonics reading instruction program is highly recommended by leading reviewers Cathy Duffy and Mary Pride. Also recommended by the Robinson Curriculum people.

How To Tutor Little Companion Readers (pack of 10)

Barbara Simkus

Simkus, Barbara

This book has been replaced by a newer version.The title: Alpha-Phonics and How To Tutor Phonics Companion Workbook. Find it on Amazon.com ISBN: 9780941995337 at a special Discount Price! Designed to be used with either of Samuel L. Blumenfeld's two great phonics reading instruction textbooks: Alpha-Phonics A Primer for Beginning Readers or his How To Tutor. This Workbook provides EXTRA PRACTICE work for your student using either o Sam Blumenfeld s two phonics reading instruction books. Follows the phonics reading instruction of both teaching books lesson by lesson and provides a wide range of extra practice exercises for your student. Covers all lessons. Includes: fill in the word, match words, find missing words, matching words with illustrations or finding misspelled words and many more types of very reinforcing practice exercises. This optional workbook has been found by many parents, teachers and tutors to be very helpful in teaching phonics reading to students of all ages. You do not need to be an expert to use this Phonics Workbook. Just like Alpha-Phonics and How To Tutor, the reading instruction textbooks, anyone who can read can definitely teach anyone else to read. For sample pages and more details see Search Inside the Book or the Alpha-Phonics website. Written in 1995 by Sam Blumenfeld's long-time friend and colleague Barbara Simkus. Barbara was for many years a professional Tutor in the Detroit area. She felt the need for something extra to be used with some of her students. With Sam Blumenfeld's blessing, she created this Phonics Workbook to accompany Blumenfeld's two phonics reading instruction books: Alpha-Phonics and How To Tutor. The Phonics Workbook has 53 pages and offers extra practice exercise for each of the lessons in either of the two instruction textbooks. Some special features of the Phonics Workbook are: (1.) General overall instructions, (2.) Numerous practice TESTS and Answers are included in the Workbook (3.) Syllabication Section with 7 pages of instruction and practice on learning how to divide words into syllables (which is very helpful in learning to read and in developing an enlarged vocabulary), (4.) Sturdy Perfect Binding so the pages will not come out while (5.) Exercises include many interesting, reinforcing and skill building exercises like: fill in the missing word, find the misspelled word, circle the word that has a certain feature in it such as a silent (h), plurals vs. singulars, match words that go together from a list of words, circle a correct word after being given a clue, underline words containing a long vowel, determine what letter is missing from the word, and many, many others. Noted Reviewer Cathy Duffy mentions the availability of this Phonics Workbook in her review of Alpha-Phonics found in her 2005 book: 100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum. Young beginning reading students enjoy the exercises; even find it fun to do the practice. The Alpha-Phonics and How to Tutor Phonics Companion Workbook, like the instruction textbooks it is designed to accompany, is also very useful in working with older students, even adults who need remediation to improve their reading skill. Available at special prices: ISBN for the Alpha-Phonics and How To Tutor Phonics Workbook: 9780941995337 (for Amazon search). Remember: Alpha-Phonics A Primer for Beginning Readers, the basic phonics reading instruction program, is available at Amazon.com. Check it out: ISBN: 9780941995320 now also at a very special price of only$ 19.95. Amazon also offers in book form a set of 10 Readers designed to accompany the Alpha-Phonics phonics reading instruction book: They are the Alpha-Phonics and How To Tutor Little Companion Readers. ISBN: 9780941995344. Amazonz also has Alpha-Phonics ISBN 9780941995320 ($22.95) and How To Tutor ISBN 9780941995290 ($ 24.95)Be sure to check them out also.

Alpha-Phonics and How to Tutor Phonics Companion Workbook

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