Workshop #1 - Create Your Own Spelling Program
One That Really Works

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

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.