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The Teaching of Reading: a Continuum from Kindergarten through College

 


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(You Can Always Spell Check Your Documents)


Spill Chiggers Ewe Knighted
1234 Doe Nuts Treat
Sue Saint Mary, MI 49599

No member 7, 2000

Mist Spill Bond
Spilling Check Hers, Ink.
1259 Board Weigh
Gnu Yoke, NY 11012

Dare Misses Spill Bond:

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Sin sear Lee,

Tom Us Jack Sun


Spell Checkers United
1234 Doughnut Street
Sault Sainte Marie, MI 49599

November 7, 2000
 

Miss Spell Bound
Spelling Checkers, Inc.
1259 Broadway
New York, NY 11012

Dear Mrs. Spell Bound:

You might have used some spell checker which came with your computer. 
It's great putting marks for all to find mistakes I can not see.  I done
put your lines right through by typing so carefully.  It's going to be perfect
and I know it's going to be because our computer told me and you and
everybody around here so.

Sincerely,

Thomas Jackson


As you can plainly see, spell check will not catch everything.  It's great and we advocate using spell check, but everybody still should proofread what they have written after using it. 

All donations are greatly appreciated.  If you would like to support our mission which is to raise the level of literacy to the point where the words, illiteracy, phonemic awareness, learning disabilities, dysgraphia, family literacy, adult literacy, and illegible handwriting will no longer have relevance, please mail your tax-deductible check (in U.S. dollars) to The AVKO Foundation, 3084 Willard Road, Suite W, Birch Run, MI 48415-9404.  The AVKO Foundation is recognized by the IRS as a 501(C)3 publicly supported organization working with teachers, parents, tutors, and home schooling parents, publishing materials developed by its research, and providing free daily tutoring at its local reading clinic.

If you have comments about this website or questions concerning spelling, phonics, learning disabilities, homeschooling, etc., you may always e-mail  DonMcCabe@aol.com.  We appreciate any comments that will help us make this website even more useful. 

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or  Write:  
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AVKO Spelling & Dyslexia Research Foundation
3084 Willard Road, Suite W
Birch Run, MI 48415-9404