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AVKO comes from Audio, Visual, Kinesthetic, & Oral a multi-sensory approach.
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FREE Video (Well, almost free. We do ask that you return it. It is completely free if you wish to see it in streaming video from our sister web site www.avko.org/freebies/video.htm )
A New FREE Video will be soon up on our website. Come back soon and check it out.
Starting at Square One: Or teach reading & spelling AS you teach the alphabet NOT after A complete handwriting/keyboarding curriculum and it's free. The only book that allows the student to learn manuscript, cursive, and the computer keyboard AS the alphabet is being systematically learned to Mastery. All we ask is that you use it and give us your reactions and your students' reactions to it.
One Free book with each order. May be new or used. Two FREE books with every order over $50.00. One New & One Used. Orders over $100.00 will receive 4 books. Choose your own category of books from and let us know the approximate grade level (K-3, 4-6, 7-12).
We are able to give these away because they were donated to us either by NAEIR or school libraries. Some are new. Some are discards. Just let us know when you order which kind of books you would like.
Free stuff just for fun and teaching reading comprehension. Example: The Real History of the 12 Days of Christmas.
Red Skelton's The Pledge of Allegiance. A must read to your kids.
Try before you buy
The
first eight lessons from Sequential Spelling 1
You can discover for yourself that your children can
learn to spell a word as difficult as "beginning"
without ever studying it!
The first seven lessons from the
spelling book If it is to be it is up to me to
do it. You can discover for
yourself that your students can learn to spell a
word as difficult as the word
scatters (only 10% of all 4th
grade students can spell this word!) and without
ever studying it! Your students will learn to
spell the word without studying because they will
have learned the patterns "sc," "atter" and "s"
through many, many words previously given. Try the
lessons.
Lesson One from Speech to
Spelling. Try it before you buy it.
This helps students learn how to correctly spell the
words that are normally slurred in speech, such as
"hafta" and "sposta" as"have to" and "supposed to."
How the AVKO Approach Differs from the Traditional Approaches
Sample AVKO Materials
220
Names and Faces, 220 Dolch Words are Too Many for
Students with Memories like Mine.
The
real "Use I before E Rule" that really works
with explanations that make sense.
Sample Books, Chapters or parts of chapters from AVKO Books.
The Teaching of Reading & Spelling: a Continuum from Kindergarten through College It's a complete course in teaching reading and spelling. You may read an two chapters by clicking on the titles that show links. AVKO members have complete access to all the chapters.
Sample Pages from both The Patterns of English Spelling and from The New Word Families in Sentence Context
Helpful Free Stuff
Freeware Shareware Resources. Our Homeschoolers, K-12 teachers and adult education teachers are always looking for free solutions that they can use in their classrooms since money is so tight. What are your recommendations for 'free stuff." Is there a list that you have developed that we can share with them?
Data on your local schools, test scores, teacher salaries, etc. Official Websites to go to.
E-mail questions from parents and teachers with answers from Don McCabe.
The differences between American and British Spellings from color/colour to center/centre
An easily understandable chart that shows the differences between traditional approaches to teaching spelling and AVKO's approach.
AVKO's 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 systematically taught in our schools. The results of this test can easily be replicated by researchers and students alike.
The first 50 of the 200 Easiest Words to Learn to Spell in exact statistical order.
Syllabication Rules or how to divide words at the ends of sentences by hyphenating.
A Chart of Phonograms representing sounds, a Chart of Sounds and their Phonograms Courtesy of the Reading Reform Foundation
A List of the Spelling Patterns That Need to be Taught But Are Rarely Taught in Any Spelling Program These spelling patterns are also phonic patterns that are almost never taught in any basal reading series.
The 5 types of English Spelling: The Simple, The Fancy, The Insane, the Tricky, and the Scrunched Up
A Study of the effectiveness of Sequential Spelling in the Flint Alternative Junior High School
Essays by Experts in the Field
Reading Recovery: Just the Facts by Bill Carlson
"We Confused Literature with Literacy" by Jane Fell Greene, Ed.D.
"Whole Language: What it is; What it isn't." by Mary Bowman-Kruhm, Ed.D.
Is Professor AVKO Right? A $1,000.00Challenge to Educational Researchers at Every Level.
Research
on Learning Styles and a Request for Rebuttal
Studies by Cathy C. Shank
An Open Letter to All Educators and Parents to stop the discrimination against that silent minority of parents who want to learn how to help their child (or spouse) improve their reading and/or spelling.
AVKO will also give workshops at homeschool conferences helping parents in the art of tutoring reading, spelling, handwriting, and keyboarding.
Don McCabe will be speaking at the following Home School Conventions:
March 17, Home-Schooling Works Book Fair, Farmington Hills, Mich.
March 22-24 Cincinnati HomeSchool Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio.
April 13-14 MACHE, Rochester, Minnesota
April 20-21 MACHE, Frederick, Maryland
May 4-5, INCH, Lansing, Michigan
May 18-19, Arkansas Homeschool Convention, Searcy, AR
June 8-9, SouthEast Texas Homeschooling Association, Houston TX
August 3-4 Southeast Homeschool Expo, Atlanta, GA