AVKO Research
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• Summary of AVKO Research
• Research Proposal to U.S. Dept. of Education and University Researchers
• Quick and Painless Assessment Tests
  University Researchers are encouraged to replicate or disprove the accuracy of this very simple test.
• 97% Literacy in 25 years: An achievable goal but only if set
  A challenge to Universities and the U.S. Department of Education.
• Spelling Research Survey Form
• A Challenge to Educational Researchers
• Read by Grade Three?  Say, What?
  This essay clearly demonstrates that no matter how wonderful the rhetoric of No Child Left Behind is, we can never really have children reading after just two years of instruction.  A scientific analysis demonstrates what everybody intuitively knows:  Learning to read is a continuum from Kindergarten through college.  So, should the teaching of reading skills be: a continuum from K through college?
• A Study of the Effectiveness of Sequential Spelling in the Flint Alternative Junior High School.
• AVKO's Test
  This test demonstrates that nearly everybody recognizes on a subconscious level that there are some spelling patterns that are more difficult to learn than others.  Actually, they are more difficult primarily because these patterns are not systematically taught in our schools.  The results of this test can easily be replicated by researchers and students alike.
• The 50 Easiest Words to Learn
• The 5 types of English Spelling
  The Simple, The Fancy, The Insane, the Tricky, and the Scrunched Up (sandhi or synaloepha in linguistic terminology).
• An easily understandable chart
  Shows the differences between traditional approaches to teaching spelling and AVKO's approach.
• An analysis of the University of Oregon's Dibels Bench Mark 1
  78% of the nonsense words are misspelled!  Inexcusable!
• An Assessment of Fast ForWord by Eldo Bergman, M.D., Texas Reading Institute.
• 2 & 3 Letter Words
• An Open Letter to All Educators and Parents
• Audiblox
• British vs. American spelling
• George Bernard Shaw's "ghoti" for "fish"
• Grade 1 National Reading Vocabulary
• The Complete I Before E Rule
• Latin and Greek Roots
• Phonic Patterns Seldom if Ever Taught Even in Phonics Programs
• An Index of Basic Phonic Patterns by Vowel Types
• Phonogram-to-Sound Chart
• A Fun Quiz: Phonics Can Be Fun
• Syllabication Rules
• Underlining or Highlighting: Cueing the Computer Brain
• The Complete I Before E Rule Explained

Essays Related to Research by Experts in the Field
See also: Essays

• Reading Recovery: Just the Facts? by Bill Carlson 

• We Confused Literature with Literacy by Jane Fell Greene, Ed.D. 

• Whole Language: What it is; What it isn't  by Mary Bowman-Kruhm, Ed.D.  

• Is Professor AVKO Right? by Don McCabe
  A $1,000.00Challenge to Educational Researchers at Every Level.

• Research on Learning Styles and a Request for Rebuttal Studies by Cathy C. Shank

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