For Classroom Teachers

• Teaching Reading through the side doors of:  
  • Handwriting Students learn phonics, reading, and spelling AS they learn the alphabet, not afterwards. 
  • Keyboarding Students learn phonics, reading, and spelling AS they learn the keyboard.
  • Sequential Spelling The only system that builds vertically as in one day all, tall, stall, install, call, recall, etc., but also builds horizontally in the following days with the structural elements as in install, installs, installed, installing, installer, installers, installment, installments.  

• Free resources: curriculum, samples, articles, anecdotes

• Having Fun With Heteronyms

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• Testing and research findings showing the relationship between phonics and dyslexia that you can replicate right in your classroom!
   
• A Quick & Painless Assessment Test -- Replication of findings by university researchers is requested.
  
• A Fonnix Ken Bee Phun Kwizz.
  

"Read by Grade Three" is a great slogan but what we need is a practical long term research & development study with the accent on development.  To discover why "Read by Grade Three" is an impossible quixotic dream, click here.  If you want to find out how our universities, federal and state departments of education, literacy organizations, might help achieve 97% Literacy by Age 15 in 25 years or Less click here. 

Essays by distinguished Educators

• Whole Language: What it is, What it isn't by Mary Bowman-Kruhm
• Is Professor AVKO Right?  A $1,000.00 Challenge
• Reading Recovery: Just the Facts? by Bill Carlson
• The Phive Phones of Reading by Sebastian Wren

We have found out what poor readers (particularly those with dyslexia and/or dysgraphia) need to be taught (phonics, both basic phonics and advanced phonics as well as graphics, context clues, writing conventions, etc.) and what techniques and materials will help teachers and parents do a better job of teaching reading and spelling.   Over 75% of the words dyslexics cannot read contain phonic patterns never taught in regular schools.  Conversely, over 75% of words containing these patterns cannot be read by dyslexics.  We have categorized these patterns and organized them for easy teaching.   Want proof?

• Helpful Ideas for Teachers (& Homeschoolers)
  • 200 Easiest Words to Learn in Exact Statistical Order
  • Two & Three Letter Words
  • Grade 1 National Reading Vocabulary developed by http://www.tampareads.com/  
    With additions and comments by Don McCabe, Director of the AVKO Educational Research Foundation.  We hope his comments and additions may prove helpful to those teachers who believe that it is more economical to teach decoding using onsets & rimes than to just teach single words by sight or by phonic rules using only a very few examples.
  • Humorous Aphorisms to Teach Comprehension
  • Latin & Greek Roots
  • A Test for Tutors 
  • For a website devoted to spelling research and materials and techniques for teaching spelling go to spelling.org
  • The Most Recent Questions asked by parents, homeschoolers, and teachers concerning dyslexia and teaching dyslexics with Don McCabe's answers.
  • Where do I start?  Letters to AVKO with Don McCabe's answers.
  • Unsolicited Testimonials
  • Letter from Parent regarding Audiblox