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Don McCabe <donmccabe1@gmail.com> Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:40 AM

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AVKO Educational Research Foundation

Newsletter
In This Issue
May Events
How to GET THE MOST Natioinal Bike Month - Get out your bke and MOVE!
May 1 - May Day MayDayHistory and Kentucky Derby Day Derby
DOUBLE DUTC H May 5 - C inco De Mayo Mexico's Liberty History
May 9 - Mother's Day Everything MOM
Restoring Reading
May 31 - Memorial Day USA Memorial Day
Deficits

Quick Links
How to GET THE MOST OUT of the AVKO
BOOK OF THE MONTH
SPELLING PROGRAM - in Three Easy Lessons
To Contact AVKO by Gloria Goldsmith
AVKO MEMBERSHIP LESSON ONE: FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS
Whenever a parent calls with a problem, I always ask them to tell me
in detail how they are going about giving the lessons to their student.
AVKO Advocates Almost every time, we discover the parent/teacher has left out an
important step in delivery. They aren't using sentences, or they decide
to spell the word aloud instead of writing it out, or they forget about
Brandy's blog
the use of color coding when writing the words on a dry erase or
"Afterthoughts"
chalkboard, or the very worst is when they proceed through the words
discusses her family's
without giving immediate feedback, or allowing the student time to
need for spelling and the
erase and make immediate corrections.
AVKO program fairly
thoroughly. We liked it
The AVKO process is about giving your student the opportunity to use
and thought you might
four of their five senses to learn. (If we could think of a way for them
enjoy it, too!
to use their olfactory [sense of smell] with all words, we'd promote
that too!)
Brandy's Blog-
"Afterthoughts" Hear the word, as Parent says it, uses it in a sentence Auditor
See the word written in color coded described method. Visual
Feel the "muscle memory" helping to shape the letters Kinesthetic
Say the word, pronounce the word out loud. (student) Oral

For the best opportunity for comprehension and recall, the student
must have AVKO sensory involvement that Following-the-Directions
provide.

Here is a short hand version of the directions:

Say the word, use in sentence, say the word, IN
the student says word. SIN
Student writes in SRB - you color code it on board PIN
Student compares what he wrote with what you wrote: SPIN
if correct, on to the next word or SPINNING
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if wrong -erase and makes IMMEDIATE C ORREC TION

June Issue, Lesson Two:

How to Use the Reference Books from Membership

DOUBLE DUTCH
JUMP ROPE By Gloria Goldsmith
New York Public Schools initially decided it
was another avenue to get more girls
involved in sports. These days, Double
Dutch Jump Rope teams have both boys
and girls involved as a Varsity sport as well
as participating in local and international
competitions!

I loved jump rope when I was a kid. I wasn't successful at truly

mastering those sports involving catching, throwing, hitting or avoiding
balls coming toward me because of my depth perception problems.
But jump rope, I could HEAR and FEEL the rhythm and beat. I was
really good at it. Too bad there were no competitions then. But today
Double Dutch is a team sport with growing interest and creative style.

Here are some ditties something like we used to sing when jumping.
Song to jump rope to

Here are some websites all about students participating in the sport.
National Double Dutch League
USA Jump Rope
A link to an NPR radio strory Radio Story on Jump Rope
Time magazine article Time on Jumping Rope

Restoring Reading Deficits

Eddie C arron of Shrewsbury, England contacted Don McC abe, founder
and Executive Director of AVKO, to tell him he agreed with his article
Reading by Grade Three, Say What?
RBGT-Say What? He invited Don to read his own compilation of
articles about reading and the difficulties children have in decoding the
English language.

C arron notes some interesting facts in his article series. C ountries that
have a language with a one-to-one ratio (Finland) between the sound
and the symbol for that sound (a letter) the literacy rate is about
97.5%!!! But English is a language comprised of five major languages,
each bringing their own spellings and letter sounds with them. Let me
show you a simple example of what I mean with the sound / f /. We
use the letter "f "in everyday words like "off" or "frost", but we use the
letters -ph from Greek origin words as in "telephone" and "elephant"
for the / f / sound. And of course, we also use -gh from German origin
words for the same / f / sound as in "laugh" or "enough". There are
many other letters which have a variety of spellings for the same
sound. This is why we English users have such a problem deciding how
to spell a word, much less read it. But C arron realizes, as McC abe
does, that spelling and reading go hand-in-hand. When one improves,
so does the other.

C arron has an online research program to help those kids who are
behind in their reading in the UK schools. It is called the Electronic
Library which he speaks about in the articles. I know the sum total of
all the articles is over 60 pages but its well worth reading. He gives the
URL for the Electronic Library and your kids could use it for free while
his research project is going on. But, keep in mind; the stories are in
British English so in some of the more advanced readings there will be

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different spellings for some words.

We'd like some feed back from you, our patrons and members. We
think his methods are completely in line with our ideas of reading and
spelling acquisition. Please look it over, follow his directions. read at
least one or two stories, use the comprehension selections and all the
other offerings and email us how it worked for you and your student.
Please keep in mind the early stories are the simple words with few, if
any, different spellings.
His article is here: Restoring Reading Deficits

Email us your feedback at: avkofoundation@gmail.com

Book of the Month

Individualized Spelling
With Individualized Spelling, one can create
a completely tailored spelling program that
uses the same techniques of Sequential
Spelling but covers only the word families
that need to be taught for your child.
Administer the placement tests, discover
the word families that have yet to be
mastered, and then look up those word
families in The Patterns of English Spelling.
Then you just create your own sequential
spelling tests. See HERE for more
information.

Member Price: $19.95

Non Member Price: $22.47

Don McC abe

AVKO Educational Research Foundation

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