• On May 8-10 A Special AVKO Workshop will be held in Beaufort, SC for Homeschoolers with dyslexic and/or dysgraphic children. Limited to 15, so sign up quickly. Details:

   

• Sequential Spelling 1-7 for Home Study Learning 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 25 words for a total of over 25,000 words!  

• If it is to be, it is up to me to do it is a parent-friendly spelling/reading book for children 12 on up who might resent a title with the number 1 in it.  Click on the title for a full explanation of how it works and a free download of the first seven lessons.

• Let's Write Right will enable you to teach a child to read AS they are learning the alphabet NOT after!  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.

• Individually Guided Keyboarding is designed to help students improve their reading and spelling skills AS they learn the keyboard in a systematic manner.

• 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. 

• 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.

• Become an AVKO Member and Save 25% on each order PLUS AVKO books worth $114.85 for only $25.00

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).

1. Adventure
2. Bible Stories
3. Biography
4. Black History
5. Christian
6. Christmas
7. Classic Literature
8. Composition
9. Crafts
10. Geography
11. Girls (Especially for)
12. Grammar
13. Health
14. History
15. Literature Textbooks
16. Math
17. Mystery
18. Pre-K Read-to-Me Books
19. Science
20. Sports K-3, 4-6, 7-12
21. Vocabulary
22. Well used "antique" books

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 in the message column at the bookstore which kind of books you would like.

AVKO's Research Director, Don McCabe, will give free training in the art of tutoring to homeschoolers who live close enough to travel to our headquarters.  

AVKO will also give workshops at homeschool conferences helping parents in the art of tutoring reading, spelling, handwriting, and keyboarding.  For information about Don McCabe's background click on Experience Plus. 

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

On May 8-10 A Special AVKO Workshop will be held in Beaufort, SC for Homeschoolers with dyslexic and/or dysgraphic children. Limited to 15, so sign up quickly. Details:

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

Any parent or representative of a homeschooling 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.

• Letters from Home Schoolers & Others with answers from Don McCabe.

• Links to other organizations that may be of great help to homeschoolers.
   

• Absolutely FREE Stuff from curriculum to humorous readings to help with comprehension.

• 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
  • Literature books, junior high and high school

   

   

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.