Since 1973 1973 the need for parents to take t ake matters into their own hands has become ever more acute. Since he started learning by your method, he hasn’t been sick one day, and has gained weight rapidly to where he has a perfect physique! Needless to say, we are so grateful. Eric is now reading Robinson Crusoe , and is just loving it! He had been having headaches all through the second grade, and was losing weight. Anyhow, would you believe that we went from Less Lesson on 2 throug through h Lesson 27 in two weeks? And by Tanksgiving time we had drilled right through Lesson 117. He just turned “see-and-say” off entirely. Evidently he was one one of those youngsters who refused to attempt sight reading. Even you wouldn’t believe the results! It was as if we were witnessing a miracle! When I star started ted on September 10th, Eric Er ic was almost totally retarded as to reading. Not being an educator, nor even having an education beyond the twelfth grade, I knew I must follow your book’s instructions exactly, which I have been doing. By the time he was in second grade, we were worried at the retardation process-not only on our son, but on our friends’ sons and daughters. However, before he was half hal f way through the t he first grade, we were beginning to wonder about the methods being used in the public schools in Westfield. Eric is evidently a very intelligent boy.
But his favorite letter came in 1978 1978 from a father fat her in New Jersey who wrote: I just must write to express my wife’s and my thanks for your excellent book How to utor , It has been so very valuable to us in teaching our 8½-year-old son, Eric, to read, write, and do arithmetic. Over the years the author has received letters thanking him for the book.
is a do-it-yourself manual that has now been in use for How to utor is thirty-six years and has proven itself to be of great value to parents, tutors, and even some classroom teachers. To get a good grounding in the basics, the teaching and learning would have to be done at home. In time, many parents parents realized real ized that th at if their children were ever ix Parents’ cries for “back to basics” went largely unheeded u nheeded by the educators. Te public primary schools had degenerated into glorified kindergartens where the major emphasis was on play and activities with practically no emphasis on intellectual development. wil When How to utor was was first published in 1973, it was already apparent that there was a great need for a simple, straight-forward tutoring book for the basic academic skills. But simply having a knowledge and understanding of the traditional methods of instruction willl make them better teachers. eachers in public schools may need the permission of the principal to use this book in their classrooms. Of course, this book can also be used by tutors and teachers who want an easy-to-use handbook on teaching the three Rs in the traditional manner. If you are among the many parents parents who now wish to homeschool their children, this book provides the necessary instruction program to get started-a ready-made curriculum for the first two years. His book was written specifically to enable parents to teach their children the three basic primary subjects-reading, writing and arithmetic-at arithmet ic-at home. PREFACE TO THE 2014 EDITION Preface to the 2014 Edition Box ��� Vallecito, CA ����� ISBN: ���-�-����� ���-�-������-��-� �-��-� Library of Congress Congress Control Numbe Number: r: ����������ĬONTENTS Preface to the 20 201 14 Edition ix Preface xiii Part 1: 1: How to Become a Good utor utor 1 Part 2: Reading 13 Part 3: Handwriting 123 Part 4: Arith Arithmetic metic 164 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in connection with a review or article. © First Edition ���� Second Edition ���� Tird Revised Edition ���� by Samuel BlumenfeldĪll Rights Reserved. How to TUTOR A Step-by-Step Step-by-Step Guide to Teaching Teaching the 3 R’s