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Aw, that's sad.  I read his "How to Tutor" book as a young teen and then went out and found some students to begin tutoring, as my first "job."  And I use Alpha Phonics with my kids now.  He did some good work during his lifetime.  

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Hunter, I thought of you when I read the this news.

 

http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/crimes-of-the-educators-author-dies/

 

:crying:

 

I probably wouldn't have liked his new book that much, but I love How to Tutor, and I think the REVISED Alpha-Phonics is pretty much fool-proof.

 

Revised Alpha-Phonics

http://chalcedon.edu/store/item/alpha-phonics-a-primer-for-beginning-readers/

http://www.exodusbooks.com/details.aspx?id=54721

Don Potter's supplements for the revised Alpha-Phonics

http://www.donpotter.net/reading_clinic.html

 

Sam Blumenfeld and Ruth Beechick could be a little out there sometimes, but they actually knew how to get students reading and doing basic arithmetic, with nothing but an inexpensive novel-sized paperback. How to Tutor and the Three R's are masterpieces. And all some instructors need to teach the 3R's.

http://www.amazon.com/How-To-Tutor-Samuel-Blumenfeld/dp/0941995011

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Rs-Ruth-Beechick/dp/0880620749/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433351773&sr=1-1&keywords=the+three+r%27s

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