Create Your Own Spelling Program

AVKO Workshops & Inservices Workshop #1 Create Your Own Spelling Program Develop a cost-efficient, time-efficient system of teaching spelling whose effectiveness you can easily demonstrate with reliable statistics even if you're not a statistician.

Speaker: Don McCabe, Noted Author of To Teach a Dyslexic and The Patterns of English Spelling

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Participants will learn what research reveals about the following topics:

1. Methods that don't work but are still commonly used.

2. Methods that do work but are rarely used.

3. Selection systems for word lists. Some are good, some are bad, and some are completely inexcusable.

4. What most students learn without being taught.

5. What most students never learn unless they're taught.

Participants will receive special AVKO handouts that will:

1. enable them to evaluate any spelling program,

2. construct their own sequential spelling program based upon their students' needs,
3. learn how to help students learn without having to study word lists and without having to copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy.
4. learn how to help students learn to spell without having to waste precious after-school-at-home-time correcting papers.
5. learn how to recognize and to teach the five different types of English spelling, the Simple, the Fancy, the Insane, the Tricky, and the Scrunched Up.

The AVKO Challenge and Guarantee

Participants may watch a demonstration in which a student (or students) of their choice learn to spell a difficult word such as scattered, psychology, or malicious. Your choice! They will learn to spell whichever word they select without once seeing the word, without studying the word, without writing it seven times. This is guaranteed. If Don McCabe cannot get the students you selected to do this, AVKO will refund the entire cost of the inservice.

And Now the Surprise!
The Low, Low cost of AVKO Inservices

Cost: $600.00 a day, plus expenses. Grants available.

Grants of up to $300.00 available to school systems that can demonstrate a need for financial assistance.

Grants of up to $500.00 available to Home School Support Groups, adult literacy organizations such as local chapters of the International Dyslexia Association, the Learning Disabilities Association, Literacy Volunteers of America, Laubach Literacy, Michigan Literacy, Reading Reform Foundation, the Right to Read Foundation, and any independent local literacy group or home schooling organization.

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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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