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Don McCabe <[email protected]> Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:26 PM

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AVKO Foundation
AVKO Training In
YOUR City!
Dr. Seuss
MARCH NEWSLETTER
Book of the MONTH

AVKO Provides
Support
AVKO Provides Parent Support
The other day a Mom called with a problem. Her 13 year old
One-to-One son was no longer performing the daily
tests with as much accuracy. They went
Quick Links through the words as usual, but now he
was missing 10 or more of each list! She
Tricky Words Book-of- didn't understand why there was suddenly
the-Month SALE a problem and her son was becoming
really alarmed that he
Sequential Spelling was never going to be able to spell.
DVD 2 Debut SALE
I asked her to describe to me how she went about teaching
the lesson. It turned out, they had taken a break in their
March Calendar classes during the Holidays and when they finally went back
to spelling, they were no longer completing them the same
Women's History way. For one thing, she had forgotten the words are to be
Month* written on a dry erase or black board in color coding and she
left spelling correction until the end of the lesson, instead of
immediately allowing her son to correct his mistake. Just by
*and More not following these two simple instructions changed his
ability to spell competently.

March 2 Two simple instructions, yet both instructions are SO

Dr. Seuss' B'day important to the process of logical thinking.
Read Across Amer.
Day Writing the words on a dry erase board with the word family
March 14 i l d th f t t i th t i th

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March 14 in one color and the front consonants in another triggers the
Einstein's B'day brain to see the patterns more easily and helps in recall. So
Daylight Savings simple and yet how easily we can forget the depth of
March 15 importance it can have on our students ability to easily
Ides of March grasp information.
March 22
Nat'l Goof-off Day When a student gets the spelling incorrect and has to erase
and correct immediately, it signals his brain to be alert.
The next base word has the same ending sound and the
same ending spelling. This alerts his God-given computer
Ask for Tutor brain and signals it the correct spelling. Success! It is the
Training in YOUR euphoria and satisfaction that helps reinforce the correct
spelling pattern in his brain, not just for today, but over
City ! time, too.

Research Director Don Unlike many commercial booksellers, we are a non-profit

McCabe will be organization and here to help you with your individual
available for training problems. We take great pleasure in being able to give you
sessions in the AVKO the support you need to make home schooling satisfying and
techniques of rewarding to both you and your children.
teaching reading and
spelling from April 9th If you need a little support with your spelling or reading
- through April 23rd program, or want advice on what AVKO book to buy, or how
along the I-75 corridor to use the program, please give us a call, M-F, 12 - 5 pm
from Michigan to the toll free 1-(866) 285-6612.
Orlando, Florida area.
He and his wife Ann
will be visiting friends
near Orlando for about
ONE-TO-ONE
All schools, not just Christian schools,
four days which
have known that there are children with
leaves plenty of time
special needs who need one-to-one
for working with
instruction. But how? How can it be done?
homeschoolers,
There are so many children who, for
teachers, schools or
example, have problems learning how to
organizations
spell, how to write, how to read.
interested in finding
out more about the
Actually, the answer has always been there. It's simple. It's
AVKO materials and
common sense. If parents can teach their children to speak,
techniques. Contact
which is by far the most difficult of all learning tasks, surely
him at: [email protected]
with our help and guidance, parents can be taught how to
help their children at home.
Dr. Seuss
The public school system already has Adult Community
Education courses dedicated to such tiny minorities as those
who want to know how to decorate cakes, do yoga, belly
dance, learn karate, and make their dogs behave.

Isn't it about time that we had some help for our parents
who know their children are struggling and want to know
what they can do to help at home?
Theodore Seuss
Geisel, who wrote and Surely, the schools realize that the struggling students
illustrated children's would be learning if only they had plenty of one-to-one
books as Dr. Seuss, is instruction. It doesn't take an MBA degree to realize that
one of Don McCabe's the schools can't afford to do it themselves. And it doesn't
(AVKO's Research take a Ph.D. degree to realize that parents won't charge
Director) favorite them a dime to volunteer their time to give their own
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authors. He loves the children one-to-one instruction.
rhyming qualities of
the books which The kicker is, it really can't be done on school time. Imagine
started out as a a classroom of 30 children, one teacher, one teacher's
children's primer for assistant, and five parents. Pandemonium would reign.
new readers. His
books reinforce The answer lies in having the one-to-one being done at
AVKO's ideas of the home not in the school. That's where it is so important that
rhyming qualities to the parents receive their training in an adult community
teach spelling, reading education course in which there is a simple absolute
and poetry. This commandment. Thou shalt NOT criticize your child's school
website has lots of or teacher or curriculum. Negative comments will not be
information about tolerated. It's non-productive. The parents must
Geisel, his books and a concentrate on how they can help their children solve their
National Memorial in reading problems.
Springfield, MA. How
about a spring road Perhaps, we can get one Christian School teacher to
trip!?! Check it all "infiltrate" the Adult Community Education Program by
out at: National volunteering to teach a night class for parents who want to
Memorial know how they can help their child at home when they're
having trouble learning how to spell, read, or write.
Book of the Month
The Tricky Who knows, maybe a good teacher would end up
accidentally recruiting new students for your Christian
Words school for next year!

Can it be done? Yes. I've done it myself-very successfully,

in fact. If you're interested, I have lesson plans I can share
with you. No charge. I have a free sample letter that you
can use to send to all your parents in your school and one
that perhaps you can convince some principals in the public
schools to send out as well.

For more information about the AVKO Educational Research

Foundation and its mission to help parents and schools help
children learn to read, visit spelling.org (make sure you use
The Tricky Words .org and not .com). You are also encouraged to call me toll
are homophones - free with any questions your may have at 1-866-285-6612.
words that are
pronounced alike
but are spelled
differently and have
different meanings.
Words like
<hear/here> or
<sees/seas/seize>
or <you/yew/ewe>.
This workbook is a
collection of
parent/teacher
directed, student
self-corrected, fun-
filled and infor-
mation packed, non-
graded exercises
designed for all
ages.
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