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The AVKO Blog is the home of the latest news, articles, essays, and activities AVKO has to offer, as well as helpful links and resources created and distributed by others. 

New Essays on AVKO

• Homeschool Teaching ing Methods by Cindy Downes of Oklahoma Homeschool
• Improving Your Existing Spelling Program by Don McCabe
• AVKO Turns 35 by Don McCabe
• Customizing Sequential Spelling by Brian McCabe
• Information on Dictionaries and AVKO Reference Materials by Brian McCabe
• Instilling Curiosity to Learn New Words by Don McCabe
• Teaching Children to Use the Computer Keyboard by Don McCabe
• Building a Better Vocabulary the Lazy Man's Way by Don McCabe
• On Sequential Spelling Word Lists by Brian McCabe
• Helping Your Child Become a Successful Reader by Topsy-Techie
• Connection Between Dyslexia and Right-Brained Learners by Topsy-Techie
• Dyslexia Resources for Homeschoolers by Topsy-Techie
• The Use of Color in Sequential Spelling by Don McCabe
• Teaching Readings for Comprehension by Don McCabe
• Disable the Backspace Key for teaching typing (PDF) by Brian McCabe

The Learning-to-Read Process

• Is Professor AVKO Right? (HTML) (PDF)
• 97% Satisfactory Literacy for American 15-year-olds in 25 years or Less:
  an achievable goal but ONLY if set!  Pay attention U.S. Dept. of Education!
• An Open Letter to All Educators
  (RE: Adult Education Course for Parents who want to help their children improve their reading and spelling.)
• Characteristics of Good Readers
• Underlining or Highlighting: Cueing the Computer Brain
• Reading Recovery Just the Facts? by Bill Carlson
• The Phive Phones by Sebastian Wren
• Grade 1 National Reading Vocabulary by Tampa Reads with editorial comments by Don McCabe.
• Is Teaching to a Person's Learning Style Really Effective by Cathy C. Shank
• System Failure
• The AVKO Sample IEP

Spelling

• Traditional vs. AVKO Approach
• 5 Types of English Spelling
• Patterns Seldom Systematically Taught are Harder to Learn
• British vs. American spelling
• George Bernard Shaw's "ghoti" for "fish"
• How to Develop Your Own Sequential Spelling Tests
• The Complete I Before E Rule
• Latin and Greek Roots
• The Parts of Speech by David P. Tower and Benjamin F. Tweed
• Phonic Patterns Seldom if Ever Taught Even in Phonics Programs
• An Index of Basic Phonic Patterns by Vowel Types
• Phonogram-to-Sound Chart
• Syllabication Rules

AVKO Affiliate Essays

• I Can't Draw An At
• We Confused Literature with Literacy

Whole Language

• Whole Language Takes on Golf
• Whole Language: What is it?

Other Essays

• Ewe Kin Awl Weighs Spill Chick Yore Dock You Mints
• Grade One National Reading Vocabulary
• AVKO's Spelling Research Survey Form
• Research on Learning Styles: A Request for Rebuttals
• Word Difficulty Test: A 50/50 test that yields a mode and median of 100%
• A Quick and Painless Reading Assessment Tool. University
• What is Dyslexia
• An Open Letter to All Educators
• Quick & Painless Assessment Tests

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