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The Teaching of Reading & Spelling
Starting from Square One
The Only Handwriting/Keyboarding Curriculum that
Teaches Reading & Spelling
AS
the Alphabet is being Taught with
All Decodable Words.
by
Don McCabe
Copyright © 2005 AVKO Educational Research
Foundation, Inc.
3084 Willard Road, Birch Run, MI 48415
Currently
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For examples click on the
RED
underlined
chapters or units below.
Contents
Unit 1
Mastering the A, B, C, and D
Unit 2 Mastering
the R, S, and T plus the br, cr, dr, sc, scr, tr,
st, and str blends
Unit 3
Mastering the Y plus the vowel Y as a long i
sound and the ay vowel digraph
Unit 4
Mastering the E (and EE, EA, ER, EY and
the -ED ending)
Unit 5
Mastering the F plus the fr blend and the ft
ending
Unit 6
Mastering the G plus the ge and dge digraphs
Unit 7
Mastering the H plus ch, sh, and th consonant
digraphs
Unit 8
Mastering the W plus wh, aw and ew
Unit 9
Mastering the I plus the ai, ie, ei, igh, and
eigh vowl digraphs
Unit 10
Mastering the J and K plus the ck digraph and
the sk blend
Unit 11Mastering
the L plus the cl, fl, and gl blends and the rl
endings
Unit 12
Mastering the M plus the sm blend and the rm and
sm endings
Unit 13
Mastering the N plus the sn blend and nd, nce,
and nt ending
Unit 14
Mastering the O plus the oa, oi, and ow vowel
digraphs
Unit 15
Mastering the P plus the pl, spl, sp, pr, spr
blends
Unit 16
Mastering the QU plus the-sque (sk) and -que (k)
trigraphs
Unit 17
Mastering the V plus the f/v switches
Unit 18
Mastering the X
Unit 19
Mastering the Z
Appendix:
Rationale for AVKO’s Concept of Teaching
Reading, Writing, Keyboarding and Spelling AS
the Alphabet is Taught Rather than AFTER
Rationale for AVKO’s Sequence of Letters to be
Taught: ABCD (RST Y) EFGH (W) I J K L M N O P Q
U V X Z.
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AVKO Techniques for Teaching Phonics
as manuscript and cursive is
taught.....................
Rationale for Exposing Students
Immediately to a Variety of Fonts Including
Cursive
Teaching with “Flashcards (Letters of
the Alphabet, Single Words, Phrases)
Teaching with Sentences
Teaching Comprehension with Jokes and
Riddles
Decodable Words Available by Units and Lessons
General Lesson Plans
Units and Lessons for Learning the Alphabet,
manuscript and cursive
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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 Educational
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and providing free daily tutoring at its local
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