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AVKO comes from Audio, Visual, Kinesthetic, & Oral a multi-sensory approach.
The Teaching of Reading & Spelling
Starting from Square One
The Only Handwriting/Keyboarding Curriculum that
Teaches Reading & Spelling
AS the Alphabet is being Taught with
All Decodable Words.
by
Don McCabe
Copyright © 2005 AVKO Educational Research Foundation, Inc.
3084 Willard Road, Birch Run, MI 48415
Currently FREE as an E-book with membership in the AVKO Foundation. Will be available in book form for $59.95 in 2007.
Contents
Chapter 1 Rationale for AVKO’s Concept of Teaching Reading, Writing, Keyboarding and Spelling AS the Alphabet is Taught Rather than AFTER
Chapter 2 Rationale for AVKO’s Sequence of Letters to be Taught: ABCD (RST Y) EFGH (W) I J K L M N O P Q U V X Z. 8
Chapter 3 AVKO Techniques for Teaching Phonics as manuscript and cursive is taught.....................
Chapter 4 Rationale for Exposing Students Immediately to a Variety of Fonts Including Cursive
Chapter 5 Teaching with “Flashcards (Letters of the Alphabet, Single Words, Phrases)
Chapter 6 Teaching with Sentences
Chapter 7 Teaching Comprehension with Jokes and Riddles
Chapter 8 Decodable Words Available by Units and Lessons
Chapter 9 General Lesson Plans
Units and Lessons for Learning the Alphabet, manuscript and cursive
Unit 1: Mastering the A, B, C and D
Unit 2: Mastering the R, S, and T (plus the br, cr, dr, sc, scr, tr, st, and str blends)
Unit 3: Mastering the Y (plus the ay vowel digraph)..Mastering the Y (plus the ay vowel digraph)
Unit 4: Mastering the E (and EE, EA, ER, EY and the -ED ending)
Unit 5: Mastering the F (plus the fr blend and the ft ending)
Unit 6: Mastering the G (plus the ge digraph)
Unit 7: Mastering the H (plus ch, sh, and th)
Unit 8: Mastering the W (plus wh, aw, ew)
Unit 9: Mastering the I (plus the ai, ie, ei, igh, and eigh digraphs)
Unit 10: Mastering the J and K (plus the ck digraph)
Unit 11: Mastering the L (plus the cl, fl, and gl blends and –rl endings)
Unit 12: Mastering the M (plus the rm ending)
Unit 13: Mastering the N (plus the sn blend and nd, nce, and nt endings)
Unit 14: Mastering the O (plus the oa, oi, and ow digraphs)
Unit 15: Mastering the P (plus the pl, spl, sp, pr, spr blends)
Unit 16: Mastering the QU (plus the –sque (sk) and –que (k) trigraphs
Unit 17 Mastering the V (plus the f/v switches)
All donations are greatly appreciated. If you would like to support our mission which is to raise the level of literacy to the point where the words, illiteracy, phonemic awareness, learning disabilities, dysgraphia, family literacy, adult literacy, and illegible handwriting will no longer have relevance, please mail your tax-deductible check (in U.S. dollars) to The AVKO Educational Research Foundation, 3084 Willard Road, Suite W, Birch Run, MI 48415-7801. The AVKO Foundation is recognized by the IRS as a 501(C)3 publicly supported organization working with teachers, parents, tutors, and home schooling parents, publishing materials developed by its research, and providing free daily tutoring at its local reading clinic.