Spalding Method

The Spalding Method teaches reading by focusing first on phonics and writing. It was developed by Romalda Bishop Spalding in the late 1950s{{cite book |last1=Spalding |first1=Romalda Bishop |last2=Spalding |first2=Walter T. |title=The Writing Road to Reading: The Spalding Method of Phonics for Teaching Speech, Writing, and Reading |date=1990 |publisher=Quill |isbn=978-0-688-10007-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ardOAAAACAAJ |access-date=4 March 2021 |language=en}} as a multi-disciplinary educational tool.{{cite book |last1=Education |first1=United States Congress House Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational |title=Oversight on Illiteracy in the United States: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, March 20, 1986 |year=1986 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nG4OSNQljk0C&dq=%22Spalding+Method%22&pg=PA28 |access-date=4 March 2021 |language=en}} {{cite book |last1=Spalding |first1=Romalda Bishop |last2=North |first2=Mary Elizabeth |title=Writing Road to Reading 6th Rev Ed.: The Spalding Method for Teaching Speech, Spelling, Writing, and Reading |date=17 January 2012 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-208393-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZByDZwEACAAJ |language=en}}