AVKO Workshop #4 The Mechanics of English Spelling

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.   The origin of the five different types of English spelling, the Simple, the Fancy, the Insane, the Tricky, and the Scrunched Up.

• 2.  Why what is taught in Grades 1- 3 is not enough for 4th Graders to read to learn.

• 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.

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.