AVKO Workshop #3  Using AVKO Materials & Techniques in Classrooms and Resource Rooms

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.  How to use the AVKO diagnostic/prescriptive tests and how to quickly locate all the words in any word family, all the words that share a common suffix such as -ment, -ful, -cial, -ssion, etc., or all the words using a Latin or Greek root such as -ject- in The Patterns of English Spelling.

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

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

  • 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.

And Now the Surprise!
    The Low, Low cost of AVKO Inservices

  • Cost:  $600.00 a day, plus expenses.  Grants available.

  • Grants of up to $300.00 available to school systems that can demonstrate a need for financial assistance.

  • Grants of up to $500.00 available to adult literacy organizations such as local chapters of The International Dyslexia Association, The International Reading Association, The Learning Disabilities Association, Literacy Volunteers of America, Laubach Literacy, Michigan Literacy, Reading Reform Foundation, the Right to Read Foundation, and any independent local literacy group or Homeschooling organization.