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Sample Chapters (or parts of chapters) from The Teaching of Reading & Spelling: a Continuum from Kindergarten through College.

• "Learn about the Learning to Read Process by Teaching Yourself to Read and Write Upside Down"  
• The 50 Easiest Words to Learn to Spell in Exact Statistical Order
• Two & Three Letter Words 
• A Phonics Test that demonstrates that nearly everybody recognizes on a subconscious level that there are some spelling patterns that are more difficult to learn than others.  Actually, they are more difficult primarily because these patterns are not taught by our schools.  This results of this test can easily be replicated by researchers and students alike.
• Sample IEP for Spelling & Reading.

• "An Index of Phonic Patterns by Vowel Types"
• "220 Dolch Words Are Too Many for Students with Memories Like Mine ...
• "Essential Phonic Patterns Seldom Systematically Taught"
• Latin & Greek Roots
• A Phun Fonnix Kwiz
• Ewe Kin Awl Weighs Spill Chick Awl Yore Dock You Mints.
• Underlining (or Highlighting): Cueing the Computer Brain
• The AVKO Reading/Spelling I.E.P. 

Sample Sections from The Patterns of English Spelling

• How English spelling differs in the U.K. and the U.S.  As complete a listing of all the differences between British and American spelling as you can find anywhere.

Sample Chapters from The Book To Teach a Dyslexic

• Chapter 4 "Flint Tech, a school without a gym" 
• Chapter 7 The ASA: Learning Russian in California and Teaching English in Japan.
• Chapter 24 "What is Dyslexia?"

  Start at Square One:  Or teach Reading & Spelling AS you teach the alphabet NOT

after FREE to AVKO Members as an E-book.  The hard copy version will not be available until May, 2007 and will retail at 59.95.

With the purchase of fifty dollars or more, home school parents can receive two free library books.  These books are either new books donated to AVKO's library by NAEIR or are books discarded by libraries that when they closed they donated the books to AVKO.

All you have to do is when you order on line, in the message column indicate the type of books you would like to receive.  We will do our best to accommodate you. 

Some of the kinds we have are:

• K-3 Religious books
• 4-6 Adventure books for boys
• 7-12 Adventure books for boys
• 4-6 Adventure books for girls
• 7-12 Adventure books for girls
• Mysteries
• non-fiction
• Religious books

Essays by distinguished educators

• "We Confused Literature with Literacy" an essay by Jane Fell Greene, Ed.D 
    
• Whole Language:  What it is; what it is not by Mary Bowman-Kuhn, Ed.D.

• Links to Other Organizations whose web pages may be valuable to you.

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

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