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Title: I really tried to like this book...
Review: After reading The Well Trained Mind and Classical Christian Homeschooling and both recommending this book I really, really was excited to try this book. After opening the book, which is large--not thick, but large as in phone book size, I was so frustrated and ended up sending the book back to Amazon. I consider myself to be fairly smart, I have a college degree and taught in a public school, but this Spalding method looked like a foreign language to me. I have no idea how children can memorize these numbers and be expected to write tiny numbers by their words before they can really even write well. It probably works wonderfully and I may regret sending it back at some point but it seemed to me to be the single most confusing system of teaching reading, writng, and phoinics I've ever seen. I do recommend however Phonics Pathways, and Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons.
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