In some ways this feels dated, even though it's not more than 15 years old! After having decided to move away from teaching a letter a week you start to wonder how, and this book definitely had a prescribed method. I'm just not sure it's a practical one it seems to depend on a lot more parent involvement than I think most of us can expect, more classroom volunteers, and probably smaller classes (aka a dream world). That being said, I think that a good educator can see the goals of those methods and find good ideas that just need some adaptation for the classroom. And if you have that ideal scenario then you have a whole system in place from this book, including most the resources you'd need!
