The Blumenfeld Oral Reading Assessment Test Paperback - 2015

NOTICE: NEW LOW PRICE! Why an ORAL Reading Assessment Test? Learning to read is an ORAL learning process: The beginning student learns to SOUND OUT the words they are learning. They learn the simple combinations like - a - plus - t - makes the word at. Then they are taught if - s - is added they now can pronounce the word sat. So it goes as the students at first SOUNDS OUT WORDS ALOUD. Later they begin to sound them out in their minds, not pronouncing the word out loud. This simple process is the basis of learning to read. If the student can PRONOUNCE the word correctly he/she can READ IT! The professional educators have succeeded in making learning to read seem like a mysterious process, when it is NOT. (Samuel Blumenfeld's book How To Tutor explains this more fully: ISBN 9780941995290) Most parents do not realize there are only 44 sounds, or phonograms, which comprise the entire English language. The short a sound, the long a sound, the short e sound, the long e sound, etc. It is not difficult to teach these relatively few sounds to the students, who can then sound out most words for themselves Many people believe that the English language is highly irregular, meaning here are a lot of non- standard word/sounds to memorize. Again, this is not true. English is about 85 % regular, meaning only about 10-15% of words the student will encounter do not follow the simple sound patterns of the 44 phonograms they will need to learn. The Blumenfeld Oral Reading Assessment Test was developed by celebrated educational author Samuel L. Blumenfeld who is the author of numerous books on education including the famous: Alpha-Phonics A Primer for Beginning Readers, his simple, easy and inexpensive phonics reading instruction book which is rated so very highly by many especially, homeschool materials reviewers. You can find detailed information on Author Samuel Blumenfeld by looking up his Alpha-Phonics elsewhere on Amazon.com and selecting the About the Author section. Full information on Alpha-Phonics is easy to find. Its ISBN is: 9780941995320. This is the new 2015 version and is available at a special low price! Among the many books and articles Blumenfeld has authored are: How To Tutor, How To Start your Own Private School, Is Public Education Necessary?, NEA Trojan Horse in American Education, The Outcome Based Education/Whole Language Fraud, Crimes of the Educators.