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A Tutor's text & Student response sheets for parents, spouses or friends of dyslexics

If it is to be,
it is up to me to do it

by Don McCabe

 

W716 - $22.95    8½x11  96 pp.  3 ring loose-leaf binder     ISBN: 1-56400-742-1

  •  It is a tutor's book that can be used by anyone who can read this paragraph. It also contains the student's response pages.  It is especially good to use to help an older child or adult.  It uses the same basic format as Sequential Spelling I - except it has the sentences to be read along with the word to be spelled.  The students get to correct their own mistakes immediately.  This way they quickly learn that "Mistakes are opportunities to learn." 
     

  •  Great for Adult Literacy Program.  If an adult literacy tutor has a family member of his student using this program daily with him, the literacy tutor's weekly or bi-weekly tutoring becomes more than doubly effective.   Why?  Because it ensures that between tutoring sessions the student does some reading and writing daily.
  •  It is designed to prove to the student that he isn't dumb.
  •  It builds self-confidence as the student learns that he can learn without studying! This book is the most effective tool AVKO has ever developed to promote literacy skills and develop self-esteem simultaneously. 

Before starting on the program, the student is asked to attempt the spelling of the word scatters on a page in the book.  Most students with dyslexia or related reading/spelling problems will misspell the word.  One such common misspelling is skadr.  The tutor merely tells the student that when he gets to the lesson that has that word, he will spell the word correctly.  The following is from Lesson five.

scatters      12.  If your brother scatters your toys, just tell me about it.  Don't beat him up.

Check your student's spelling of the word scatters.  If he has it right, show him his misspelling on the bottom of page 109 (Lesson 1).  Praise him for learning a word without ever having had it shown to him.  If by chance, you student misspelled scatters, just have him correct his spelling.   Wait until tomorrow when he gets to spell the word scattered or the following lesson when he gets to spell scattering.   We bet he will have learned it by then.  Praise him.  Let him know that he is learning the natural way, by correcting his own mistakes.

To try out the first seven lessons, click here.

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 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.

If you have comments about this website or questions concerning spelling, phonics, learning disabilities, homeschooling, etc., you may always e-mail DonMcCabe@aol.com.  We appreciate any comments that will help us make this website even more useful. 

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