The Cursive Road to Reading and Spelling Alpha-Phonics Progress Chart
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Lesson 1 Short ă Consonants Lesson 11 Lesson 21 Lesson 31 Lesson 41 Lesson 51 Lesson 61 Lesson 71 Lesson 81 Lesson 91 Lesson 101 Lesson 111 Lesson 2 Lesson 12 Lesson 22 Lesson 32 Lesson 42 Lesson 52 Lesson 62 Lesson 72 Long ā Lesson 82 Lesson 92 Lesson 103 Long ō Lesson 112 Lesson 3 Lesson 13 Lesson 23 Lesson 33 Lesson 43 Ending Blends Lesson 53 Lesson 63 Lesson 73 Lesson 83 Lesson 93 Lesson 105 Lesson 113 Lesson 4 Lesson 14 Lesson 24 Short ŏ Lesson 34 Lesson 44 Lesson 54 Lesson 64 Lesson 74 Lesson 84 Lesson 94 Lesson 104 Lesson 114 Lesson 5 Lesson 15 Short Vowels Lesson 25 Lesson 35 Lesson 45 Lesson 55 Lesson 65 Lesson 75 Lesson 85 Lesson 95 Lesson 105 Lesson 115 Long ū Lesson 6 Lesson 16 Short ĕ Lesson 26 Lesson 36 Lesson 46 Lesson 56 Lesson 66 Lesson 76 Lesson 86 Lesson 96 Lesson 106 Lesson 116 Lesson 7 Lesson 17 Lesson 27 Short ŭ Lesson 37 Lesson 47 Lesson 57 Lesson 67 Lesson 77 Lesson 87 Long ē Lesson 97 Lesson 107 Lesson 117 Lesson 8 Lesson 18 Lesson 28 Lesson 38 Lesson 48 Lesson 58 Beginning Blends Lesson 68 Lesson 78 Lesson 88 Lesson 98 Long ī Lesson 108 Long o͞o Lesson 118 Multi-letter Consonants Lesson 9 Lesson 19 Short ĭ Lesson 29 Consonant Digraphs Lesson 39 Lesson 49 Lesson 59 Lesson 69 Lesson 79 Lesson 89 Lesson 99 Lesson 109 Short o͝o Lesson 110 Lesson 10 Lesson 20 Lesson 30
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Lesson 60 Lesson 70 Lesson 80 Lesson 90 Lesson 100 Lesson 110 Lesson 120
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You can Read, Write, and Spell!
Note from Internet Publisher: Donald L. Potter
September 15, 2009
I have been using Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld’s Alpha-Phonics System for sixteen years. I have used it to teach reading to elementary bilingual students and remedial students of all ages. During the 1999-2000 school year, I taught it to a group of second grade bilingual students at the Murry Fly Elementary School in Odessa, TX. This was the first year that I implemented Dr. Blumenfeld’s whole program (phonics plus cursive) for “total linguistic function.” Before that I had worked in a bilingual pullout program where I only saw the children a few hours each week so I felt that there was not time to introduce the cursive. For the Murry Fly Students, I implemented the complete program including the cursive handwriting, spelling, and creative writing. Detailed Alpha Phonics Lesson Plans for that year of instruction are on my website: www.donpotter.net. To be specific, the children learned to apply their phonics by writing all the words and sentences in AlphaPhonics two times: once for class work under my close supervision, and once for homework under the eye of their parents. They read all the words and sentences to their parents. This was highly intensive phonics and cursive handwriting program. At the end of the school year, we had an exciting Alpha-Phonics Celebration with parents, family, friends, and distinguished educators from our school district. I demonstrated conclusively that Dr. Blumenfeld’s program could be taught to a whole class in a single school year. The English reading test scores that year were excellent. Providentially, I was able to test the children with the Miller Word Identification Assessment Level 2 for artificially induced whole-word dyslexia three years later when they were in fifth grade. The students were free of any signs of dyslexia and were reading significantly above grade level. They not only read well, but their fluent cursive handwriting (automaticity) enabled them to lay down a lot of words on the page when they were taking class notes, writing essays, and doing creative writing assignments. Other teachers I trained, when I was an ESL Trainer for the district, report that they are still using AlphaPhonics in their bilingual classrooms. This Alpha-Phonics Cursive & Reading Progress Chart will enable teachers to keep close track of their students’ progress. I offer the chart as a free service from the www.donpotter.net web site. Last revised 10/7/09.