Category Archives: tutoring

Book Review: How to Tutor Reading, Writing & Arithmetic

“It is not necessary to have had formal teaching experience to become a tutor. If you have enjoyed reading to children and answering their questions, then you should enjoy tutoring. With the proper instructional materials, anyone who enjoys children can … Continue reading

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Phonics Saves a Struggling Reader — She’s now a Global Change Agent

“Unfortunately, I not only know about the reading problem in our schools, but I am well aware of how it feels to be labeled a reading failure. Feeling is a lot more acute than just knowing.” Mary didn’t start out … Continue reading

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Multiculturalism & the Loss of Americanism

Exploring the Homeschooling Arguments of the 80’s & 90’s – Reviewing old Editorials in the Light of our Present Day The Blumenfeld Education Letter Revisited Vol 1, No 1 (pt. 1) – Sept. 1986 (NOTE: The following editorial has been quoted … Continue reading

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How to PREVENT or HELP a Child Discover READING

I found an old self-printed book which has some very useful information about teaching reading and I think some of the ideas presented there are worth sharing. The book contains a list of things you shouldn’t do when teaching reading. … Continue reading

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The Stigma of Dyslexia

Sometime, somewhere, within the history of American education, it was decided that it was not good to write with the left hand. Writing this way was often punished. I learned of just such an example, in the most unusual of … Continue reading

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Miss Cora & the Kentucky Mountain People

The Kentucky Girl (commencement speech on graduating from teacher’s college)  While other girls were posing, their charms being exhibited, their characteristics discussed. There has lived and walked, among the evergreen pines and the sturdy oaks, of the mountains of Kentucky, a creature … Continue reading

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The Irish Mom who gave her Son a Voice

Tragedy Leaves a Young Girl without a Family “At the time many children were playing on the street as several women from the tenements sat on the pavement watching on. Yet within minutes the scene was one of screams and dust … Continue reading

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Censorship & Propaganda – The Theft of Voice

If you have spent much time around children, especially quarrelling children, you may have observed disputes over who gets to explain what just happened. Here are some examples which I have witnessed. Children rushing toward me with their mouths full … Continue reading

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Reading, Writing & Endangered Voices

I shall never forget my first attempts to learn to spell. I was about thirteen years of age, when I nearly lost my life because I made an effort to gain this kind of knowledge. Josiah Henson A Murderous Uprising … Continue reading

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A Convicted Murderer, a Columbia Grad, and a Missionary

IT IS LIKE A MIRACLE… for a man, who never knew a letter, to walk out of our school in an hour able to read a whole page of his own language with Roman letters. We see that miracle happen over … Continue reading

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