AVKO gives workshops at reading conferences and at school-wide inservices.  For information about Don McCabe's background click on Experience Plus. 

Any teacher or representative of a literacy or reading organization who visits the AVKO Foundation's Free Reading Clinic will receive free a minimum of $25.00 worth of new trade books.   AVKO's Bernice Webb Memorial Library housed at the Reading Clinic provides an extensive collection of books on the teaching of reading as well as an extensive collection of books for reading.

AVKO provides reference materials that should be available in any school library, such as:

• The Patterns of English Spelling, the only resource book that contains all the rimes (word families) and all the words within each rime.  It also has cross references to rimes that rhyme.

• Word Families in Sentence Context, the only reading text ever devised to teach word families in the context of real sentences.  Although it uses drills to teach skills, adults find the sentences entertaining.  Because the sentences are written for adults, the beginning adult reader keeps his focus and learns decoding by onsets and rimes as well as by applying other skills in context of real sentences.

• The Teaching of Reading: a Continuum from Kindergarten through College. contains  suggested orders of presentation (curriculum) for the teaching of phonics, phonemic awareness, spelling, as well as techniques for teaching vocabulary, reading comprehension and studying.

• Sequential Spelling 1-7 You can try out the first eight lessons.  It's the only method of teaching spelling that eliminates the Study-for-the-test-and- forget-by-Monday syndrome.  Each of the 7 levels has 180 daily tests of 21 words for a total of over 25,000 words!  

• How to Develop Your Own Sequential Spelling Tests is a workshop highly recommended for those teachers who want to individualize the sequential spelling for their students, even those with dyslexia or specific learning disabilities.  However, for teachers who cannot attend such a workshop, they may download a free booklet on how to do so.

• If it is to be, it is up to us to help them is a set of lesson plans for an adult community education course to help train parents in the art of tutoring reading and spelling if their children need more one-to-one help than can possibly be given in a normal classroom. 

• If it is to be, it is up to me to do it is the parent-friendly spelling/reading book especially designed for the adult community education course in tutoring above.  Click on the title for a full explanation of how it works and a free download of the first seven lessons.

• Starting at Square One is the only curriculum ever devised to teach reading and spelling AS the students are learning the alphabet NOT after!  And it is FREE at the moment.  All you have to do is print it out as you need it from our website.  There are no cute bunny rabbits or balloons so this set of books will not be a put-down for older students or adults who need help in either learning manuscript, cursive, or both.  They will also be learning reading and spelling skills as they practice their penmanship.  It is also designed to teach keyboarding or typing.  But remember it is copyrighted.  Do not distribute.  We are putting this book up on our website to get your feedback.

• Individually Guided Keyboarding is designed to help students improve their reading and spelling skills AS they learn the keyboard in a systematic manner much like Starting at Square One above.

• Letters from Teachers & Others with answers from Don McCabe.

• FREE STUFF FROM CURRICULUM CHAPTERS FROM BOOKS TO HUMOROUS READINGS FOR COMPREHENSION

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.