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Word Mastery by Florence Akin & Don Potter

donpotter.net WORD MASTERY

Fresh Publication of an all time phonics classic

I am proud to announce the July 3, 2014 republication of Florence Akin’s 1913 phonics classic, Word Mastery. I first published Word Mastery on my website as a free ebook in PDF format back in 2004. The document got as many as 30,000 hits per month back then. Many parents have emailed me over the years to tell me that they used the method successfully with their children, many of whom had previously struggled to learn to read.

donpotter.net Free PDF of WORD MASTERY

A Sound Track to Reading

donpotter.net A Sound Track to Reading

Don Potter youtube Noah Webster Syllabary

donpotter.net/pdf WHY NOAH WEBSTER’S WAY WAS THE RIGHT WAY By Geraldine E. Rodgers

My coworkers and I are very thankful to Miss Rodgers for her years of diligent research into the history and pedagogy of reading that lead her to the just conclusion that Noah Webster’s Way was the Right Way to teach fluent reading from the sounds. I recommend all of her published works to researchers and teachers who are sincerely searching for the way out of the dark labyrinth of illiteracy that has descended upon our country.

I am happy to announce that I have just published Noah Webster’s 1908 Elementary Spelling Book with Create Space. The new edition is titled, Noah Webster’s Spelling Book Method for Teaching Reading and Spelling.

donpotter.net/pdf Noah Webster's Spelling Book Method for Teaching Reading and Spelling

An Adaptation of Noah Webster’s 1908 “Elementary Spelling Book” to the needs of twenty-first century students

The History of Beginning Reading Geraldine E. Rodgers donpotter.net/pdf

DonLPotter youtube The Miller Word Identification Assessment

www.thephonicspage.org Reading Grade Level Tests and Diagnostic Phonics Tests

There are a variety of tests you can use to determine reading grade level. There are also some diagnostic tests to determine if phonics training will be helpful. Spelling tests are on another page.

The Miller Word Identification Assessment (MWIA) is a diagnostic test that measures the reading speed and accuracy of 2 different sets of words–sight words and phonetically regular words that are not commonly taught as sight words. If you have a slowdown of more than 10% on this test, you should try our online spelling lessons. For a slowdown greater than 15%, our phonics lessons are recommended. The MWIA is available from Don Potter’s Education Page. The MWIA is a very powerful test which you can use to determine if you could benefit from phonics instruction. A much shorter version has been developed and tested, it is the MWIA Version 3 It also has a short version of the original MWIA I called the MWIA 1 short. To help you understand the MWIA scores, 40L has developed a document called Understanding and Using MWIA Scores. You can also watch 40L’s YouTube MWIA playlist for more about the MWIA.