Listen to Octavio reading with phonics.

Dear Friends of Phonics-First,
I have just published a newly formatted (easier-to-read, faster-download) edition of Raymond Laurita’s insightful and invaluable essay, “Understanding the Significance of the Individual Letters of the Alphabet in the Development of Full Literacy.” It took me many years to fully realize the negative impact of teaching sight-words as wholes in kindergarten [...]

Dear Bluedorn Family,
I am writing from Spain. Sorry for my English — it’s not very good, but I hope you understand me. Congratulations for your web page, it is really very interesting, and in my country it is very difficult to find a similar page because homeschooling it is not very common in my [...]

There are four new documents on the Don Potter web site.
1. Analysis of the 1979 Open Court Headway Program. This is the first part of a comparative study of the old and the new Open Court programs that I am preparing. They are vastly different.
2. No-Frills, easy to read edition of Webster’s 1824 American Spelling [...]

Dear Bluedorns,
I’ve recently completed a draft version of my Spelling Lessons.
I’m hoping you can share these lessons and a request for feedback with your e-mail group.
There are 5 lessons, each under 30 minutes long. They are free, but you need to download a QuickTime player to be able to see them. [...]

Dear Laurie,
I just wanted to let you know that I have a new book out printed by XL Group called Taking the Mystery Out of Teaching Reading in 6 Easy Steps.
It is not a reading curriculum. It explains the process of teaching reading in 6 easy steps. It is only about 20 pages [...]

The DVD, You CAN Do It! - Spell to Write and Read, features endorsed SWR trainer Britta McColl teaching her own children in her home with SWR.
Spell to Write and Read is an intensive phonics curriculum written by Wanda Sanseri.

Dear Laurie,
My son … is only 2 years old. Before I knew about classical education I was using the programs of the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, where Glenn Doman is the director, to teach … to read, do math and give some encyclopedic knowledge. Up until now, … has started to read [...]

Dear Friends of Phonics-First,
January has been particularly good for phonics. Our web site donpotter.net has received a total of 56,326 hits for the month! This is a record! There was a total of 4,904 visits. The KBytes is also respectible: 1,217,084.
Florence Akin’s 1913 Word Mastery leads the hits with an encouraging 12,532 hits for [...]

Hi Laurie,
I was wondering if you would post this so I could get some opinions on the different programs that use the Spalding method. I have the book The Writing Road to Reading, 5th Edition. I also have TATRAS. I am interested in knowing if anyone has used Phonics for Reading and [...]