Freebies

AVKO offers a variety of free supplies and services for helping you on your way to learning how to teach using our methods and to help you better understand dyslexia in general.  We offer samples of our products, informative essays, links to other organizations, free books, information regarding dyslexia, our research, the use of the Bernice Webb Memorial Library, and even free daily tutoring here at the AVKO Reading clinic in Birch Run, Michigan. 

Some freebies may be obtained just by ordering from AVKO.

Members have access to other freebies, including $400+ worth of e-books and additional readings for comprehension.

For many of our freebies, you need Adobe Reader 5.0 or later

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Software | Newsletter Archive | Essays | Word Games

Offers for HomeSchoolers:

• AVKO's Clearance books
• Free books with orders over $50
• Google Books -- download PDF books in the public domain for free.
• Secrets of Successful Homeschooling (A 61 page E-book) Courtesy of The Old School House Magazine.
• Links to other useful organizations
• Homeschool.com's Top 100 Websites

Teaching Aids:

• Readings for Comprehension
• The Problem with Compound Words
• 50 Easiest Words to learn to spell
• 2 & 3 Letter Words
• Grade 1 Vocabulary
• Latin & Greek Roots
• Starting at Square One Index   (The entire book is FREE with membership in AVKO)
• Test for Tutors  If you think you know phonics, you should take this test!
• Free Daily Tutoring
• Phonic Patterns not Systematically Taught in any Phonics Program
• The Differences between British and American English spellings
• How to Develop Your Own Sequential Spelling Tests
• The Complete I Before E Rule
• The AVKO Sample IEP
• Latin and Greek Roots
• The Parts of Speech by David P. Tower and Benjamin F. Tweed
• Phonic Patterns Seldom if Ever Taught Even in Phonics Programs
• An Index of Basic Phonic Patterns by Vowel Types
• Phonogram-to-Sound Chart
• Spell Check
• Syllabication Rules
• Underlining or Highlighting: Cueing the Computer Brain

Informative/Educational Articles Relating to the Teaching of Reading:

• What is Dyslexia? The Official Definitions and Their Translations into Plain English.
• Children's Reading Disability Attributed To Brain Impairment (NICHD)
• Dyslexia a Natural Phenomenon by Jack Ferguson
• Redefining Literacy;  Learning About Learning to Read:
  A Conversation with Sally Shaywitz and Marcia D'Arcangelo 
• PDF Versions:
  Official Definitions Translated
  Dyslexia a Natural Phenomenon by Jack Ferguson
  Is Prof. AVKO Right? by Don McCabe
• Phive Phones of Reading by Sebastian Wren
• Read by Grade 3? Say What?!  Don McCabe explains why no reading program ever can be complete by the end of Grade Two and why the teaching of reading must continue throughout the school years. 
• Reading Recovery Just the Facts, by Bill Carlson.  Gives a good insight into why the Reading Recovery movement got started and what it is a complete failure.
• Spill Chick A letter in which every word is misspelled but spell check can't catch even one of them.
• "Underlining  or Highlighting: Cueing the Computer Brain" an essay taken
  directly from The Teaching of Reading and Spelling: a Continuum from Kindergarten through College and which shows an easy way to help develop a better vocabulary. 
• The Whole Language School of Golf by Dr. Kerry Hempenstall.  One of the best, and funniest, explanations of why whole language doesn't work.
• Whole Language: What it is, What it Isn't   by Mary Bowman-Kruhm, Ed.D., John Hopkins University.  A good explanation of what Whole Language should be.
• We Confused Literature with Literacy   by Jane Fell Greene, Ed.D.
• Open Letter to Parents, Members of Boards of Education, Directors of Adult Community Education, and Family Literacy Organizations.  Stop discriminating against your most important minority, parents who want to learn how to help their children learn how to read.
• Can You Draw an At? by Betsy B.  Lee
• What Good Readers Learn That is Never Taught and Poor Readers Never Learn Unless They Are Taught

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