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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Spelling by [...]