Writing Road to Reading 6th REV Ed. - 6th Edition by Romalda Bishop Spalding & Mary Elizabeth North (Paperback)

About the Book

Originally published in 1957, this introduction to the Spalding Method has been received more and more enthusiastically in recent years as it has been shown to work--swiftly, inexpensively and efficiently.

Book Synopsis

For more than fifty years, teachers and parents have used the Spalding Method to help millions of children learn to spell, read, and write. An accredited, phonics-based, total language arts program based on educator Romalda Spalding's intensive study of how children learn, this multisensory approach is so natural and stimulating that reading itself is never taught outright--it simply begins.

The Writings Road to Reading shows teachers and tutors, parents and homeschoolers how to use the Spalding Method with their students and children. Incorporating spelling, writing (including handwriting), and listening/reading comprehension, the Spalding Method engages children's visual, auditory, speech, and tactile faculties to transform the path to reading, writing, and comprehension into a superhighway.

As children put sounds together they form words, then combine those words into sentences. By learning how language works, children develop their creative minds and reasoning skills, which allows them to progress quickly to absorbing--and enjoying--good literature: first graders enjoy Where the Wild Things Are; second graders gobble up The Velveteen Rabbit; third graders savor Charlotte's Web.

Spalding students consistently score far beyond national norms--demonstrated by more than fifty years of student achievement data. Most important, they love to read and write. In a digital world filled with distractions, The Writing Road to Reading is a vital educational tool to help children develop the literacy and critical thinking skills they need to thrive in today's world.

From the Back Cover

The Writing Road to Reading is a total language arts program that has been used by teachers and parents for over fifty years to teach millions of students to spell, write, and read. Now fully updated to reflect the latest research on how children learn language, this newest edition is easier to use than ever.

The Spalding Method helps train the right and left sides of the brain as children see, hear, read, and write. It is cost-effective and efficient; students use pencils, paper, and their minds. The results are stunning: Children learn to connect speech sounds to print and begin to write and read almost magically. Spalding students perform well in the classroom and on tests--and, most important, they love to read and write.

Review Quotes

"The Writing Road to Reading is a total language arts method that captures all the richness and variety of the English language. For forty years classroom teachers across America have found that it works. . . .I enthusiastically endorse The Spalding Method because I know that if it were taught in every classroom, illiteracy would vanish." - --Robert Sweet, Professional Staff Member, Committee on Education and the Workforce, United States Congress
"Because the Method is multi-sensory, developing the eyes, ears, voice, hand and arm muscles, and the right and left sides of the brain concurrently, it works for everyone: brilliant, averate and learning-disabled pupils of every age. . .No other approach to early literacy has this record of success." - --Dr. Susan Moore, editor of Education Monitor
"The strength of The Spalding Method is that children quickly learn the mechanics of reading, freeing them to enjoy the benefits of good literature at an early age. Spalding is effective because its principles and methods are well grounded in reading research." - --Sylvia Richardson, M.D., L.L.D., Distinguished Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Emerita, University of South Florida
"Spalding teaches children skills essential to precise speech, attentive listening and reading, and competent writing. . . .[It] is the most effective language arts program I have worked with during my 25 years as a teacher, principal, and now curriculum director." - --Jim Sexton, Director of Curriculum and Special Programs, Humboldt Unified School District, Dewey, Arizona
"I truly credit The Spalding Method with my success as a reading teacher of both regular and special education students. Not one of my Masters' courses in Learning Disabilities was able to help me teach my struggling readers what they most wanted to know - how to read." - --Eileen Oliver, Teacher of the Year 2001, Special Reading Teacher, St. Charles Parish School, Boutte, Louisiana