There is extensive training offered to teachers who wish to be trained in the Alphabetic Phonics approach. The training includes a minimum of 150 hours of instruction followed by 700 hours of supervised practice with students. During the time of its development over 1000 students attended small group classes for one-hour daily in the early afternoons while being excused from their schools and transported by their parents. Neuhaus Education Center adapted the Alphabetic Phonics curriculum to include recent findings from reading research. Each activity begins with a warm-up or focus.
Students review suffixes, prefixes, roots, and combining forms that have been previously introduced.
Through discovery teaching, students are introduced to a new reading concept. The systematic introduction and review of irregular words is included at this time. Students spell 6-10 words using newly and previously introduced patterns. Irregular spelling words are introduced or reviewed as need for dictation practices. On some days students engage in extended writing of sentences, paragraphs, and essays.