Blumenfeld's Alpha-Phonics Self-Tutor Textbook in Manuscript Handwriting Font. This edition is for combining handwriting, spelling, and reading instruction.
Blumenfeld's Alpha-Phonics Flashcards. I made these cards to exacly repoduce Sam's original cards, but mine are single-sided and the vowels are in red. These cards are effective for developing fluent word identification. Each cards has several words featuring the lesson's spelling pattern.
Here is a link to the First Readers in Times New Roman Font.
Special manuscript handwriting edition of The First Readers. This edition allows for a close correlation of the program with the student's handwriting.
Here is a pdf of the Power Point of the First Readers. This is ideal for reading on a computer, tablet, or projecting on an overhead screen. The font is Times New Roman.
There is my cursive edition of the First Readers that can be purchased from Amazon to coordinate curisve handwriting instruction with reading. This very helpful for increasing the ability to read cursive fluently.
Alpha-Phonics Self-Tutor Phonogram Flashcards. These card are modeled after Romalda Spalding's Writing Road to Reading but adpted to the spelling patterns in Samuel L. Blumenfeld's Alpha-Phonics. I created these for my second grade bilingual class at the Murry Fly Elementary School in Odessa, Texas for the 1999-2000 school year. I found them very helpful. They can be introduced when each letter or letter team (digraphs & diphthongs) is taught.
Alpha-Phonics Self-Tutor Flashcards for Step 1 for developing the Phonics Reflex. These 111 cards are best taught in a fun game format such as Go Fish. Once the initial phonics is developed in Step 1 (short a words) w ith these cards, the students will make very quick progress mastering the rest of the program.
The Revised Blumenfeld Oral Reading Assessment Test (BORAT). This is a lightly revised edition of Mr. Blumenfeld's Oral Reading Assessment. It assesses students' decoding skills following the scope and sequence of his Alpha-Phonics Primer. Some attempt was made at norming it at one school. It would be interesting to norm it with a larger and broader testing sample.
Here is Mr. Blumenfeld's original phonics program from chapter 10 of his 1973 book, The New Illiterates. It gives a lot of insights into the design of the program and how best to teach it. Here is the free Archive copy: The New Illiterates: and how to keep your child from becoming one. This book is worth a year's college course in reading and phonics - with the best professor.
Here are the pdf files for making the Stages Folders. The label for the front cover is on the last page.
Alpha-Phonics Self-Tutor: Stage : Lift Off = Short Vowels & Consonant Digraphs (22 pages)
Alpha-Phonics Self-Tutor:Stage 2: Earth Orbit = More Consonant Digraphs and Beginning & Ending Blends (20 pages)
Alpha-Phonics Self-Tutor: Stage 2: Moon Landing : Long Vowels, Other Vowel Spelling, Silent Letters, etc. (52 pages)
For more essays and other valuable material from Mr. Blumenfeld, feel free to visit the Samuel L. Blumenfeld Reading Clinic that I started back in 2015. Unfortunately due to a Mac OS update, the Sandvox program I used to create and maintain that website became inoperative, so I no longer am able to make any additions to that website.
Here is a good poem: Pretty Good.