Articles and Essays

New Essays on AVKO

• 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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