Samuel Blumenfeld fans, wake up! Now you can get an entire basics curriculum built on Sam's years of tutoring experience.
Mr. Blumenfeld, whose book Is Public Education Necessary? has been a homeschool classic for years, and whose Blumenfeld Alpha-Phonics Kit is a home school staple, is also very popular as the author of How To Tutor, a book which explains in streamed lined detail how to teach the three R's.
He How To Tutor Curriculum includes the book (reviewed in Volume 2), plus all the following:
- Extra Large Type Student Lesson Book - Created in response to popular demand, this 175-page, spiral-bound book accompanies the textbook lesson by lesson.
- How To Tutor Reading Pronunciation Audio Tape with 60 minutes of training on phonics sounds for each alphabet letter and phonogram. If you have not been trained in phonics yourself, or if English is your second language, this tape is invaluable.
- How To Tutor Phonics Reading Companion Workbook - Extra exercises in writing words and sentences. Designed to complement the How To Tutor lessons.
- How To Tutor Companion Readers - A set of ten little phonetic readers. Simple art. Designed to follow a typical intensive phonics instruction sequence (as taught in How To Tutor), so you start with the Short A Vowel Reader, followed by the Short E Vowel Reader, etc
- How To Tutor Arithmetic Workbooks - These include all the math exercises in How To Tutor, plus timed tests for arithmetic facts, with suggested times for completion, and a few exercises for beginning fractions. Inexpensive comb-bound, workbook format. Addition / Subtraction Workbook is 89 pages; Multiplication / Division / Fractions / Decimal Workbook is 110 pages.
This is probably the most simplified back-to-basics, no-fooling-around curriculum you can get. It will teach your child to read, to write in cursive (Mr. Blumenfeld believes in skipping manuscript writing altogether), and math up to the sixth grade level. It doesn't include any history, geography, art, or science. What you do get are tools a child can use to learn all those other subjects and without which, he won't learn a thing.
Mary Pride
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