Work Shop #2  Using AVKO Materials in Classrooms

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

For more information about Don McCabe click this sentence.

Participants will learn what research reveals about the following topics:

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

• 2.  How AVKO's Sequential Spelling Can Help All Students or How to Create Your Own Sequential Spelling.

• 3.  How Handwriting Exercises Can Be Used to "Smuggle" in Phonics,  Vocabulary Building, Old Fashioned Basic Grammar, and Spelling.
         

• 4.  How to Use AVKO's Word Families in Sentence Context or How to Get Students to Help You Create Reading Materials.

• 5.   What most students never learn unless they're taught, including many of the gifted.

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.