Sample 3-Day Training Workshop

Speaker:  Don McCabe, Noted Author of To Teach a Dyslexic and The Patterns of English Spelling

STOP THE MADNESS!

Do you know someone who is Dyslexic?

Do you know someone who has a reading problem?

Don McCabe, the author of To Teach a Dyslexic, The Patterns of English Spelling and over 30 other books will be presenting a seminar Oct 17-18-19 on how to use AVKO materials and techniques. Those who attend will receive certification as an AVKO tutor.

Friday’s Program

3:30-4:00 Registration

4:00-4:05 Welcome, overview, and introduction by Susan Myshka.

4:05-4:10 Collection of written questions that the prospective tutors and/or tutor trainers would like to have answered. A volunteer will write them on an easel during the first break.

4:10-4:20 Classic definitions of dyslexia translated into plain English.

4:20-4:30 Fonnix Ken Bea Phun Pre-Test.

4:30-4:45 BREAKTIME.

4:45-5:00 Logic and dyslexics. Why teaching LEFT to RIGHT is WRONG! AVKO’S TRAINER RULE #1: How a word sounds at its beginning depends upon its ending!” So, NEVER say, “Sound it out!”

5:00-5:15 The linguistic concept of Sandhi or synaloepha extremely important but never taught in the colleges of education or even recognized by the IRA & IDA.

5:15-5:30 Mechanics of English Spelling: The Simple vs. the Fancy
See pages 131-146; 182-190  SPECIAL CHARTS & FLASH CARDS

5:30-6:15 BREAK FOR DINNER

6:15-6:30 The Insane words from wont to victuals to tsk, tsk, e.g.

6:30-6:45 The Tricky words from reed/Reid/read/red to affect/effect, its/it’s etc.

6:45-7:00 AVKO Rule #1 - “HOW A WORD SOUNDS AT ITS BEGINNING DEPENDS UPON ITS ENDING!”  So NEVER say, “Sound it out.”

                 AVKO Rule #2 – WE CAN REMEMBER ANYTHING IF WE FORGET IT ENOUGH TIMES.

7:00-7:15 BREAK

7:15-7:30 three different words spelled h-a-v-e see p. 261.

7:30-7:45 The I/Y Identical Twins and the U/W Identical Twins + Never Drop a Y!

7:45-8:00 Teaching English from scratch. 

Saturday’s Program

10:00-10:15 Basic Tutoring Techniques. We start on time. We don’t believe in punishing people who are on time by making them wait for the chronically late.

10:15-10:30 The handwriting connection to reading.

10:30-10:45 Sequential Spelling demonstration with dyslexic students.

10:45-11:00 Almost Open Question and Answer period.  Questions that were submitted earlier will not be addressed at this time because they most likely will be answered later on.  This period is for new questions as the result of what has already been presented

11:00-11:15 BREAK

11:15-11:30 A Comprehension Test for Good Readers Who Know the Importance of Context Clues. 

11:30-11:45 AVKO RULE #3: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WILD GUESS.

11:45-12:00 Complete Use I Before E Rule.

12:00-12:45 BREAK FOR LUNCH

12:45-1:00 Fonnix Ken Bee Phun Kwiz Repeetid

1:00-1:15 Comprehension: What is it?  Methods that don’t work.  Methods that do.  Methods to avoid: A Monk Swimming or Our Father Who Art in Heaven Harold be Thy Name

1:15-1:30 – KEYBOARDING, A METHOD OF TEACHING READING AND SPELLING SKILLS

1:45:2:00 The New Word Families in Sentence Context or how to develop you own to help students learn to think in and create sentences in English

Sunday’s Program

2:00-2:15 Sequential Spelling:  How to create your own.  Everybody will make their own individual two week sequence for a student of theirs.

2:15-2:30 Using The Patterns of English Spelling as a resource tool.

2: 30-2:45 VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT, traditional methods plus AVKO methods

2:45-3:00 BREAK

3:00-3:15 HOLDER OF THE FOLDER, p. 360.  Participants will need to bring one file folder, one old American magazine, and a yellow highlighter

3:15-3:30 Training of Parents to help in the tutoring

3:30-3:45 Readings for Fluency.  Using a computer to make your own

3:45-4:00 BREAK

4:00-4:15 READING SPEED, FLUENCY, AND COMPREHENSION

4:15-4:30 The Case of the Invisible Y,

4:30-4:45 The Mind/Body Connection.  Body language and the power of suggestion

4:45 -5:00 BREAK

5:00-5:15 Using the Reading Teacher’s List of Over 5,000 Basic Words and Individualized Spelling

5:15-5:30 Questions that were submitted at the beginning of the first session

5:30-5:45 Summary and wrap up Question/Answer period.

5:45-6:00 Sayonara, auf wiedersehen, ciao, dos sveedonya, au revoir Registration

3:20 – Break

3:30 – Using the Reading Teacher’s List of Over 5,000 Basic Words and Individualized Spelling.

4:00 – The Case of the Invisible Y or Why is there a y in you and youth but not in union?

4:20  – Break

4:30 – The Complete Use I Before E Rule.

5:00 – Summary and wrap up Question/Answer period.