tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33689242225777512592024-03-13T03:25:09.325-04:00AVKO Educational Research FoundationBrian McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00551121911720149381noreply@blogger.comBlogger319125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368924222577751259.post-39818947404758129012014-09-23T20:41:00.003-04:002014-09-23T20:41:41.439-04:00Sequential Spelling 1-5 Available on DVD, with new 2.5 VersionSequential Spelling has seven levels, with five of them already available in DVD form. <a href="http://avko.org/ssdvd.html">Learn more about Sequential Spelling on DVD</a>.<br />
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The new version of the Sequential Spelling DVDs (2.5) includes an updated format (HTML5 instead of Flash). The tutorial videos have also been updated. As with the 2.0 versions, the DVDs include the option to type the answers onto a web browser (internet connection not required) or to write them in a Student Response Book for Sequential Spelling. Brian McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00551121911720149381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368924222577751259.post-27665409405250701932014-09-23T20:37:00.001-04:002014-09-23T20:37:08.566-04:00Website Redesign for Easier Navigation<a href="http://www.avko.org/">AVKO's website</a> has undergone an overhaul to increase its useability and make navigation easier so that you can easily get to the information you need, including <a href="http://avko.org/articles.htm">articles about the English language</a>, <a href="http://avko.org/for/HS.htm">helpful homeschooling and teaching tips and tricks</a>, and information about our <a href="http://avko.org/shop/avkocurriculum.html">materials for reading, spelling, handwriting, keyboarding, and creative writing</a>. <br />
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We would appreciate any <a href="http://avko.org/contactus.html">feedback </a>that you have on the site, and in particular navigation and organization of content. Are there pages that you would like to see on the site? Are there pages that were difficult for you to find? <br />
<br />Brian McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00551121911720149381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368924222577751259.post-2673307546799498502014-09-23T20:30:00.002-04:002014-09-23T20:30:27.913-04:00AVKO E-books Now Available for Immediate DownloadAVKO's e-books are now available for immediate download through our e-book order page. <a href="http://avko.org/shop/ebook_info.html">Learn more about AVKO's e-books</a>. Brian McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00551121911720149381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368924222577751259.post-5415880553389729132012-07-05T14:04:00.002-04:002012-07-05T14:09:43.721-04:00A Quick Tip<br />
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<pre>Quick Tip</pre>
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<pre> </pre>
<pre>Six Great Things About Homeschooling!</pre>
<pre>By Christine Field</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Quick! What are the top six things you absolutely LOVE about </pre>
<pre>homeschooling? Do they include...</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>(1) The joy of meeting your child's learning needs - wherever </pre>
<pre>they are. In homeschooling, we soon forget if our child is </pre>
<pre>"ahead" or "behind." We work with them at their own level </pre>
<pre>of need, and speed.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>(2) Scheduling flexibility. Start school at 8 a.m., 1 p.m.,</pre>
<pre>7 p.m., or any time in between! The work schedule of spouses </pre>
<pre>and others can be accommodated to allow for more family time.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>(3) Following your child's interests. If your young child </pre>
<pre>takes a fancy to butterflies, you can study butterflies to </pre>
<pre>your heart's content...at the library, on field trips to </pre>
<pre>botanical gardens, state parks and other learning centers, etc. </pre>
<pre>You are not bound to only study butterflies when your child </pre>
<pre>is in 3rd grade, during the 5th month of instruction.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>(4) Helping your child see connections. Studying butterflies </pre>
<pre>is more than an insect study. Delve into color, art, the </pre>
<pre>science and physics of how they fly, scientific discoveries, </pre>
<pre>the role of butterflies in human history, in costumes, </pre>
<pre>and their etymology - what does the word "butterfly" mean, anyway?</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>(5) Having all your kids together. While you sometimes want to </pre>
<pre>pull your hair out at the prospect of another day of </pre>
<pre>all-together-time, having them home is a special time in your </pre>
<pre>family's life.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>(6) Being able to stay in your pajamas all day! Your child </pre>
<pre>doesn't have to wait until Pajama Day at school. Every day </pre>
<pre>can be Pajama Day, or crazy hair day, or, today we're having </pre>
<pre>dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner day, </pre>
<pre>or we're all wearing something green day...or...</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>What about you? Make a list of your top six and come share </pre>
<pre>them on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/homeschoolinc)</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>---------</pre>
<pre>Christine Field is an author, attorney and speaker. To learn more about her </pre>
<pre>writing and ministry, visit MomLifeNavigator.com.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>www.avko.org </pre>Robert McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17131570836139227272noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368924222577751259.post-16702839735705915042012-03-16T14:45:00.001-04:002012-03-16T14:48:00.430-04:00Life is about Making Choices<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark/> <w:dontvertaligncellwithsp/> <w:dontbreakconstrainedforcedtables/> 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mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center; text-indent:.2in" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#400000">Life is about Making Choices</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center; text-indent:.2in" align="center"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#400000"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">He was a natural motivator. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, "I don't get it! </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can choose to be in a bad mood. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">I choose to be in a good mood." </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">"Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life." </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">I saw him about six months after the accident. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins...Wanna see my scars?" </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die. I chose to live." </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">He continued, "..the paramedics were great. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action." </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">"What did you do?" I asked. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said John. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. Yes, I replied.”</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, “Gravity.”</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead." </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:blue">Attitude, after all, is everything</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#400000">. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000">After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><a href="http://www.avko.org/"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.avko.org</span></b></a><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.2in"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#400000"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" 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The fact of the matter is, Shaw was only partially right but 100% wrong! </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">True, the gh may be pronounced /f/ as in laugh.<br />The o may be pronounced /i/ as in women.<br />The ti may be pronounced /sh/ as in nation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But there is no word in English in which the initial letters gh are ever pronounced /f/. There is no word in English ending in ti in which the ti is pronounced /sh/.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As a matter of fact the sound /fish/ is spelled fish only in words that can be reduced to a base (morpheme) of one meaningful syllable. The words <i>fish, fishes, fished, fishing, fisherman, fishermen, fishery</i>, and <i>fisheries</i> can all be reduced to "fish." </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But surely we wouldn't want to spell <i>beneficial</i> as benefishal or <i>official</i> as offishal and that should be sufficient to make my point. The sound /fish/ happens to always be spelled fici in words that have a base of more than one syllable. For the phonic patterns rarely taught in schools see </span><a href="http://www.avko.org/free/instructional/patternsnottaught.htm"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Fancy Words</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you have comments about this website or questions concerning spelling, invented spelling, whole language, phonics, learning disabilities, homeschooling, etc., you may always e-mail </span><a href="mailto:DonMcCabe@aol.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">DonMcCabe@aol.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">. We appreciate any comments that will help us make this website even more useful. </span></p> <p><a href="http://www.spelling.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.spelling.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.avko.org</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:-.5in"> </p>Robert McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17131570836139227272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368924222577751259.post-32718204071750161392012-03-13T09:29:00.001-04:002012-03-13T09:30:59.483-04:00Characteristics of Good Readers<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> 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View more of the </span><a href="http://avko.org/Essays/patterns_not_taught_systematically.htm"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">specific phonic patterns</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> that are not taught.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Good readers learn how to scan without being systematically taught how to scan.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Good readers can use a dictionary and without being systematically taught have learned to correctly pronounce any word by using the dictionary diacritics.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Good readers can read dialects in print. 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style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof:yes"></span><br />Sequential Spelling for<br />the Home School </p> <p><i>Sequential Spelling</i> is a uniquely constructed spelling system with the following key features in its methodology:</p> <p>- Words are taught in relationship to one another, both horizontally and vertically<br />- Children can figure out the rules for themselves from their relationships and commonalities, but spelling rules are not taught<br />- Students begin by "testing" themselves by trying to write words correctly before they study them<br />- Words for each grade level are selected for common elements rather than grade level appropriateness</p> <p>Some of these features might sound strange to you, and rightly so. Let's take these features one by one. Word relationships is not a new idea on which to construct a spelling program, but <i>Sequential Spelling's</i> implementation is unique in working with words both horizontally and vertically. What that means is that lessons build from common elements in two directions. For example, the first common element in level 1 is "in." Three different beginnings are connected to in to create "pin, sin," and "spin." That is the vertical development. Horizontal development combines with vertical development on the second day. The list for day 2 begins with the word "I" then expands yesterday's list to "pins, sins, spins" for horizontal development. In addition, "kin, skin, win," and "twin" add vertical development. Horizontal development continues through words such as "pinned, pinning, skins," and "skinned." Although the first lesson is short, by the ninth day, there are 25 words per day.</p> <p>Although these words are related by phonograms or common elements (e.g., doubling the ending consonant and adding "ed"), it is left for the student to make his or her own connections and formulate rules inductively if they so choose. (That makes this program a good choice for children who hate learning rules, but a poor choice for those who want explanations for why things work they way they do.) Of course, there is nothing to prevent the parent/teacher from presenting rules anyway if it seems appropriate.</p> <p>Students begin by "testing" themselves, but this is not a pretest as in some other spelling programs. This is the actual instruction. The parent/teacher says a word, says it in a sentence, then repeats the word. Children are to try to write the word the best they can. Even if they only know a few letters that might be in the word, they write those down. After they've taken their best guess, the teacher writes the word. The author suggests using colored felt pens on a whiteboard. Use one color for the basic sound such as "in." Use another color for the beginning letter/s such as "p" or "sp."</p> <p>Before going on to the next word, children erase and correct their word as needed. The idea is that they process their mistakes and the necessary correction. They think about the construction of words in a way that is missing in most other spelling programs. This will be helpful for some children and frustrating for others.</p> <p>As they continue to build horizontally and vertically, children are quickly spelling words that would be considered well beyond their grade level. For example, by the fifth day, they are spelling "beginning." The last lesson of level 1 has no "easy" words; among the 15 words are "spying, multiplying, dissatisfying, falsifying, denying, lullabies, couldn't, wouldn't" and "schools." (Try that list with most fifth graders!)</p> <p>The program is quite comprehensive. It includes spelling "demons," homophones (e.g., "air, heir"), homographs (e.g., "bat"), heteronyms (e.g., "lead"), prefixes/roots/suffixes (e.g., psy, hypo, graphic), and what the author calls "advanced patter" words such as "techniques, chauvinism," and "hors d'oeuvres." (As I typed this I realized I have yet to master the spelling of that last one!)</p> <p><i>Sequential Spelling for the Home School</i> has seven levels that are supposed to correspond to grades 2 through 8, although it can easily be used by older students. The program does increase in difficulty from level to level, so it makes sense to start students of any age at level 1, then work through the levels at whatever speed suits them. Personally, I would wait until students are about third or fourth grade then begin them at level 1. I would also use this program with high school students (and even adults) who have never learned to spell well.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The publisher has a free placement test on their website that will help you determine the best starting point: <a href="http://www.wave3learning.com/frsespplte.html">http://www.wave3learning.com/frsespplte.html</a>.</p> <p>The program is taught from the course book. You can buy individual books for each level or one large three-ring binder with all seven levels. Students can write their words in the <i>Student Response Book</i> or in their own notebooks. The <i>Student Response Book</i> has three columns per page, but they are numbered such that children are never writing their lists on the same page two days in a row—this prevents comparison or copying of word elements from the previous day. Thus, the first day's list is on page 3, the second day's list on page 5, the third day's list on page 7. The same book is used for all levels of the program. You can come up with your own system for doing this in a spiral notebook or with loose binder paper, but you DO want to keep all these pages together for comparison later on. One <i>Student Response Book</i> comes with the binder, but they are available separately for extra students. This is the only consumable element to the program.</p> <p>I suspect that <i>Sequential Spelling</i> will work best for Wiggly Willys and Sociable Sues who are not detail or rule-oriented. The author breezily dismisses concerns about questions students might have about things like "s" sounding like "z" at the end of "pins." This sort of thing matters to some students, especially Perfect Paulas, and not at all to others.</p> <p>While <i>Sequential Spelling</i> does need to be presented by the parent/teacher, it does not require preparation time. If you follow my suggestion and wait till at least third or fourth grade, I doubt lessons will take more than 15 to 20 minutes a day.</p> <p>Wave 3 Learning publishes a number of additional items that use the same methodology. However, <i>Sequential Spelling</i> is the easiest to use and most practical for homeschoolers. <i>The Patterns of English Spelling</i> [$159.95] is ten "volumes" or sections packaged within two binders. Think of this as a teacher's handbook for spelling. It has all sorts of cross-referencing and tools for selecting word groups, identifying difficulty levels, and finding related word patterns within the ten volumes. <i>Sequential Spelling</i> includes cross references to <i>Patterns</i> in case parents/teachers want to locate additional words or words related to those they are teaching. However, <i>Patterns</i> is not an essential companion to <i>Sequential Spelling.</i> On the other hand, a confident teacher could work solely from <i>Patterns</i>, selectively working through the various lists while using the same techniques used in <i>Sequential Spelling</i>. The simple teaching methodology is explained in both books.</p> <p>Yet another option designed for older teens and adults is titled <i>If it is to be, it is up to me to do it</i>. It seems about equivalent to lower levels of <i>Sequential Spelling</i>, but it has only 21 words per day. It features sample sentences for about a third of the words, something lacking in most lessons and levels of <i>Sequential Spelling</i>. However, coming up with sentences should be easy enough for most parents that this should not be a significant feature. </p> <p>[After I posted this review, one mom wrote: "I wondered if you might consider a little 'tweaking' of your review of <i>Sequential Spelling</i>. I don't think moms of children doing well in spelling will like this program. However, I have a 13 year old who can't spell easy words and is frustrated by traditional spelling programs. This series is a breath of fresh air for us, because she finds it easy and yet not childish. It teaches her how words are supposed to look, something that does not come naturally to her."</p> <p>Also, Chrystal Smith wrote: "There was a comment at the end of the review that children who are natural spellers won't like this program. True, to a point. I almost threw this out the window until I read through this link for suggestions: http://www.avko.org/Essays/customizing_ss.html We ended up saving a ton of money for my gifted son by getting the ADULT version of SS. It's a<br />condensed, tougher version of the original. The reason it's for adults is that the words build more quickly, and in some cases, build into words that children don't use at all. Some are words that would build their vocabulary (like extortion), but some are words that a child doesn't need to know (like whore). If you don't mind skipping the adult words that would be offensive to a young child, this is an excellent way to teach gifted children in the style of SS."] </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><a href="http://www.spelling.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style:italic">www.spelling.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><a href="http://www.avko.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style:italic">www.avko.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-style:italic"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" 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Use Sequential Spelling</h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="mso-no-proof:yes"><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ACCOUN%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg" alt="http://sequential-spelling.com/images/greencherrybk1.gif" height="3" width="800" /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><br />The basic structure of a Sequential Spelling Lesson is quite straight forward. </p> <ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">Say the word. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">Use the word in a sentence. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">Say the word again. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">Give the student time to write the word down. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">Write the word on a white marker board or a chalk board. (Paper will work if necessary) </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">Have the student correct any mistakes </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">Start the process over with the next word. </li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><br /><span class="plus1">Helpful Tips and Reminders:</span> </p> <ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in">Each "lesson" of Sequential Spelling is really a test. If your child does not do well when something is called a test, simply call it a lesson. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in">You will get your best results if Sequential Spelling lessons/tests are given every day. It is recommended that you give one every day of the calendar year if possible, but every school day will work. Because the curriculum is laid out in approximately 4-day chunks, it is best for retention if you can give lessons four days in a row. If teaching time is an consideration, you might wish to look at the DVD version which enables the student to do the lessons on their own. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in">The student does NOT study or even see the words before the lesson or test. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in">Do not let the student see the previous days' words while taking the tests. It is particularly important that they not see the words from the lesson just before the current lesson as this will enable them to "cheat", even if it is subconsciously. For this reason, using the Student Response Book is helpful and convenient. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in">Aim for 10 minutes per lesson. Each Sequential Spelling test should not take longer than 15 minutes. At the end of 15 minutes, cut the lesson off, even if you have not finished all the words. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in">We generally recommend that everyone starts at level 1. This is an ungraded program. Tell your student that it is like learning to play a musical instrument. Everyone, no matter what their age, has to start at the beginning and progress through the levels of learning. A student in 6th Grade would not jump right into 6th Grade piano simply because that is the academic grade they are in. They would need to start at the beginning and work their way up. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in">It is helpful to have a white marker board or a chalk board. The instructor shows the correct spelling on the board (or a piece of paper) after giving the student time to write the word down. This should take place before going on to the next word. Do not give the entire list and then write the words on the board.<br /> <br /> If the word is misspelled, the student immediately corrects his own mistake on his paper. It is important that the student make the corrections as this will help to establish the correct spelling in his brain. Corrections need to be made before the next word in the test is given. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in">When giving the test, give the word, use it in a sentence if possible, and then give the word again. For ready-made sentences, consider using "Word Families in Sentence Context." This book is available as a free e-book for when you purchase an AVKO Membership. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in">Use different colors to delineate the patterns when showing the words. Show the word family's pattern first (generally the ending of the word) and then show the onsets and endings. For example, the word "spins" is in the "-in" family. Show in, then add sp to the beginning (in a different color than in). Then add s at the end (in a different color than in but can be the same color as sp.)<br /> -in<br /> <span class="color2">sp</span>in<br /> <span class="color2">sp</span>in<span class="color2">s</span><br /> <br /> It is important to write the words out using the two (or more) different colors for the student to see. Do not just do the lesson orally. Seeing the words as well as hearing them and writing them helps the brain to lock in the word patterns. You will not be nearly as effective if you do not write the words out for the student to see. </li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style:italic">www.spelling.org</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style:italic">www.avko.org</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> </span></p>Robert McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17131570836139227272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368924222577751259.post-71157997411706709872012-03-02T06:51:00.000-05:002012-03-02T06:53:19.075-05:00The Five Basic Structures of English Spelling Patterns<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> 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name="Top"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Five Basic Structures of English Spelling Patterns:<br /></span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">T</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">he Simple, Fancy, Insane, Tricky, and Scrunched Up</span></p> <div align="center"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:429.75pt;border-collapse:collapse;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184; mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="573"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;height:16.5pt"> <td style="width:58.5pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:16.5pt" width="78"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> <td style="width:89.25pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left: none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:16.5pt" width="119"> <p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b>Basic</b></p> </td> <td style="width:2.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left: none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:16.5pt" width="192"> <p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b>Intermediate</b></p> </td> <td style="width:105.0pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left: none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:16.5pt" width="140"> <p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b>Advanced</b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1;height:35.25pt"> <td style="width:58.5pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top: none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:35.25pt" width="78"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><br /> </b><a href="http://avko.org/free/instructional/five_basic_structures_of_english.htm#Simple_"><b>Simple</b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> <td style="width:89.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" width="119"> <p class="MsoNormal">cat, big, call,<br /> dog, run, stay,<br /> jump, ate, shop, quick, queen<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> <td style="width:2.0in;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" width="192"> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">shunned, chewing,<br /> missed, pinning,<br /> outfielder, preacher, defroster, understanding</span></p> </td> <td style="width:105.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" width="140"> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">peddled, strictly,<br /> belittled, reenacted,<br /> enabled, shackled, misunderstandings</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2;height:34.5pt"> <td style="width:58.5pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top: none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:34.5pt" width="78"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><br /> </b><a href="http://avko.org/free/instructional/five_basic_structures_of_english.htm#Fancy_"><b>Fancy</b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> <td style="width:89.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:34.5pt" width="119"> <p class="MsoNormal">onion, notice, station, caution,<br /> special, crucial, Christ, sessions<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%"></span></p> </td> <td style="width:2.0in;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in;height:34.5pt" width="192"> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">suspicious, suspicions, unique, personalities, initially, linguistic, hysteria, Christianity, memoirs </span></p> </td> <td style="width:105.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:34.5pt" width="140"> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">flambeau, Chablis,<br /> ennui, psychology, psychic, rendezvous, picturesque, mosque</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;height:35.25pt"> <td style="width:58.5pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top: none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:35.25pt" width="78"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><br /> </b><a href="http://avko.org/free/instructional/five_basic_structures_of_english.htm#Insane_"><b>Insane</b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> <td style="width:89.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" width="119"> <p class="MsoNormal">one, does, was,<br /> have, laugh,<br /> laughter, cousin, daughter, should<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%"></span></p> </td> <td style="width:2.0in;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" width="192"> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">lingerie, aye, draught,<br /> soldering, indictment,<br /> salve, corps, Chanukah, renege, cologne</span></p> </td> <td style="width:105.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" width="140"> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">hors d'oeuvres, ciao,<br /> conch, jai alai, Qin, ribald, loughs, victuals, quays </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4;height:35.25pt"> <td style="width:58.5pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top: none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:35.25pt" width="78"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><br /> </b><a href="http://avko.org/free/instructional/five_basic_structures_of_english.htm#Tricky_"><b>Tricky</b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> <td style="width:89.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" width="119"> <p class="MsoNormal">deer/dear, aunt/ant,<br /> be/bee, bear/bare<br /> red/read/reed<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> <td style="width:2.0in;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" width="192"> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">do/dew/due, aisle/isle/I'll, missed/mist, passed/past, affect/effect, lox/locks/lochs, accept/except </span></p> </td> <td style="width:105.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" width="140"> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">allusion/illusion,<br /> cache/cash,<br /> spade/spayed, descent/dissent</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:35.25pt"> <td style="width:58.5pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top: none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:35.25pt" width="78"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><br /> </b><a href="http://avko.org/free/instructional/five_basic_structures_of_english.htm#Scrunched_Up"><b>Scrunched Up</b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> <td style="width:89.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" width="119"> <p class="MsoNormal">It’s, didn't, Mr., Mrs., Ms., Ave., Dr., St., they’re, we’re <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> <td style="width:2.0in;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" width="192"> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">'tis, 'twas, ASAP, CIA,<br /> PED XING, used to / "usta",<br /> going to / "gonna", supposed to / "sposta", @#$%&!" </span></p> </td> <td style="width:105.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:35.25pt" 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The word <i>fishermen</i> has three syllables but its base is the one syllable word <i>fish</i>. The -le words such as <i>little, castle,</i> and<i> candle </i>can be considered as one syllable words, or the only two-syllable based words to be "simple."</span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Basic </b>Simple Words are taught in almost all phonics programs.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Intermediate</b> Simple Words generally are not taught specifically or intensively. What usually occurs is that the base word such as <i>bat</i> is taught but not the other structural forms such as <i>bats, batted, batting, batter, batters, battered, battering, battery, </i>and<i> batteries. </i>It generally is assumed that students can apply the rules about adding -s -ed -ing -er etc. Some can and do, but certainly not all.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Advanced</b> Simple Words are usually assumed to be learned by osmosis.</span></li></ul> <p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p> <p><a name="Fancy_"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fancy</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark:Fancy_"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> words are those that usually cannot be reduced to a one syllable base. These words have come into our language from Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, etc. with their basic phonic patterns (which are different from English) retained. </span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Basic</b> Fancy Patterns are sometimes taught or encountered in some reading programs. Some examples of these are the -tion = "shun" or the -cial = "shul" as in <i>spe<b>cial</b></i> and the -cious = "shus" as in <i>pre<b>cious</b></i>.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Intermediate</b> Fancy Patterns are rarely systematically taught. Examples of these are -tial = "shull" as in <i>impar<b>tial</b></i>, the ch = "sh" as in <b><i>ch</i></b><i>ef</i>, or the -et = "ay", as in <i>buff<b>et</b></i>.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Advanced</b> Fancy Patterns are not taught specifically or intensively and are usually assumed to be learned by osmosis. Examples of these are -eau = "oh" as <i>chat<b>eau</b></i>, u = w as in <i>s<b>u</b>ite</i> and <i>s<b>u</b>ede,</i> and -ique = "eek" as in <i>myst<b>ique</b></i>.</span></li></ul> <p> </p> <p><a name="Insane_"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Insane</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark:Insane_"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> words are not pronounceable using any standard rules of phonics. </span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Basic</b> Insane Words such as <i>does,</i> <i>was</i> <i>were,</i> <i>gone, </i>and<i> eyes</i> are taught or encountered in most reading programs as sight words. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Intermediate</b> Insane Words are not taught specifically nor intensively. They are words such as <i>salve,</i> <i>lingerie,</i> and <i>soldering</i>.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Advanced</b> Insane Words are usually assumed to be learned by osmosis. Examples of these are <i>ciao,</i> <i>hors d'oeuvres,</i> and <i>victuals (</i>often misspelled as <i>vittles</i> even by highly educated people).</span></li></ul> <p> </p> <p><a name="Tricky_"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tricky</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark:Tricky_"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> words are homophones, homographs, and words with similar configurations that tend to confuse or trick the writer.</span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Basic</b> Tricky Words are taught or encountered in most reading programs. Words such as<i> red/read, be/bee, eye/I,</i> and <i>dear/deer</i> are generally taught to mastery, although some basic tricky words such as <i>its/it's, their/there/they're, </i>and <i>fair/fare</i> are often not mastered.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Intermediate</b> Tricky Words are generally neither taught specifically nor not intensively. Examples of these are <i>effect/affect,</i> (child) <i>abuse</i>/<i>abuse</i> (a child), (to) <i>present/</i>(a) <i>present, </i>and<i> accept/except/expect</i>.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Advanced</b> Tricky Words are usually assumed to be learned by osmosis. Examples of these are <i>allusion/illusion,</i> <i>resume</i> (writing)/(write a) <i>resume,</i> <i>material/materiel, </i>and<i> personal/personnel</i>.</span></li></ul> <p> </p> <p><a name="Scrunched_Up"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Scrunched Up</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark:Scrunched_Up"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> words are those word phrases for which linguists have coined the esoteric terms <i>sandhi</i> (pronounced "Sunday") and <i>synalepha. </i>We have also included acronyms and abbreviations.</span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Basic</b> Scrunched Up Words are generally taught or encountered in most reading programs. Examples of these are the common contractions <i>I'm, I'll, don't, doesn't,</i> and <i>won't</i>.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Intermediate</b> Scrunched Up Words are rarely taught in any reading/spelling program. The lack of teaching these allows the proliferation of misspellings as "were gonna," "hafta," "should of," "gotta," and "wudjuhgit" for "we're going to," "have to," "should have," "got to," and "what did you get."</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <b>Advanced</b> Scrunched Up Words generally are not taught specifically or intensively. Rather, they are assumed that, with reading and higher education, they can be learned by osmosis. This is not true as evidenced by the numbers of educated people who say "EYE EE" when reading the abbreviation <i>i.e.</i> (which stands for <i>id</i> <i>est</i> and should be read as "that is" or those who say "EE Period JEE Period" instead of "for example." Included are acronyms such as <i>SNAFU</i> (situation normal all "fouled" up) as well as the Latin word <i>sic</i> which simply means: "Yes, I know that somewhere in the matter I quoted there is a misspelling and/or incorrect syntax, but I'm quoting directly and I am not allowed to edit the quotation, so please don't write to me about it." </span></li></ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The AVKO Educational Research Foundation would like to see the educational establishment (which includes the universities and the publishing industry) begin to provide training and materials to the teachers so that students can be taught and not just left to their own devices to learn their language.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For methods that can be used to teach all five varieties of English Spelling, teachers and/or homeschooling parents may want to use </span><a href="http://avko.org/650.html"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Teaching of Reading & Spelling: a Continuum from Kindergarten through College</span></i></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For a source book in which a teacher, researcher, writer, publisher, or homeschooling parent can look up any word in the English language (except bathroom wall words) and find all the words that share the same pattern, see </span><a href="http://avko.org/patternsofenglishspelling.html"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Patterns of English Spelling</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></i></p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For a Spelling Series that contains over 35,000 words arranged sequentially by the difficulty of the easiest word within the pattern, see </span><a href="http://avko.org/sequentialspelling.html"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Sequential Spelling</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> and print out the first seven lessons that lead students into learning to spell the difficult word <i>beginning</i> by starting with the easiest word <i>in</i>.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">See our book of the same name for help in teaching students learn the basic </span><a href="http://avko.org/500.html"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tricky Words</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></i></p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For help in teaching students the "Scrunched Up" words or eliminating their phonic misspellings of gonna, were sposta, you hafta, etc., see </span><a href="http://avko.org/321.html"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Speech to Spelling</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.avko.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.avko.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span 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Lee, 2003 </span></p> <p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Can you draw an <i>at</i>?<br />I can draw a hat.<br />I can draw a cat.<br />I just can't draw an <i>at</i>. </span></p> <p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Can you draw meanings of <i>here</i> and <i>there</i>?<br />Dolch words like these are seen everywhere.<br />It's sure to make reading much more fun<br />To learn these service words in grade one. </span></p> <p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dolch words on lists for grades two and three<br />Aren't seen in grade one as frequently.<br />They still are found in first grade.<br />Knowing Dolch words gives reading much aid. </span></p> <p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">An illustration can give a clue<br />For guessing a word. 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style="font-size:13.0pt"> </span></p> <p>Once children start learning to read and write, they often cast their eyes on the computer. They want to use the keyboard. There's something almost magic about the way letters pop up on the screen. And that bit of magic can help children not only learn the computer keyboard, but if they're experiencing a bit of difficulty learning to read and write, learning the keyboard may just be that key to unlocking the door to complete literacy.<br />Parents often ask me, “How young can I start my children on learning the keyboard?”</p> <p>Like most of my answers, it starts, “It all depends…” I hate to keep saying that, but there are so many factors involved. One is the size of their hands and whether or not they can gently rest four fingers of each hand on the home row keys. If their hands are big enough, if they're big enough to sit at a computer, and if they really want to learn, they're old enough.</p> <p>When I'm asked to recommend a keyboarding program, I simply ask the parents, “Do your children have any problem at all reading or spelling?” If the answer is, “No,” then almost any commercial program will do the trick.<br />The reason is that there isn't that much difference between any of the programs. They all teach in the first lesson the seven letters and the semi-colon that constitute that home row. And from there on in, it's a race to finish learning all the letters in as few lessons as possible. </p> <p>But if the answer is, “Yes, my children do have reading and spelling problems,” then commercial typing or keyboarding programs may be very frustrating to them. My theory is simply: Good readers have built-in responses to spelling patterns, so they can easily read and spell non-words like: depotion, piction, incordation, and cligging. Good typists are good readers who quickly build upon these built-in responses to develop new patterns. </p> <p>Poor readers don't know the patterns and don't know the words so they must type letter-by-letter, stroke-by-stroke. Poor readers need training in spelling patterns to become good typists.<br />If you can copy the following just as fast as the above paragraph, then perhaps I don't know what I talking about.</p> <p>dGoo rdsreea vhae bltui-ni srspsnoee ot psllngie pttrnsae, os tyhe can slyiea rdea nda pslle nno-wdros lkei: dptneoio, pctniio, nicordation, nda clggngii. Gdoo ytptssi rae gdoo rdrseae hwo qckylui bldui pnuo htsee btln-uii rspnsseoe ot dvlpeeo nwe pttrnsae.<br />Proo rdrseae dnt'o nwko hte pttrnsae nda dnt'o nwko hte rwdos os htey mtso ytpe lttr-yb-lttreeee, rtsk-yb-rtskoeoe.<br />Proo rdrseae ndee rtngnaii ni psllenig pttrnsae ot bcmeoe gdoo ytptssi.</p> <p>What then can parents do for their children who have reading/spelling problems? Well, they can create their own typing texts that help with reading and spelling very simply.</p> <p>Here is one ordering of the teaching of the keyboard by lessons:<br />Lesson 1 a, d, l, and space bar. Lesson 2: s and ; Lesson 3: f, t. Lesson 4 r, j. Lesson 5 c, k. Lesson 6 i. Lesson 7, h. Lesson 8 e. Lessons 9 through 14, shifting, commas, question marks, apostrophes, quotation marks while the patterns available are drill in. Lessons 15 to 28 will have the letters in this order: g, m, n, b, o, p, u, w, y, v, q, x, z.</p> <p>Sample lessons in the beginning which parents can create might look something like this for Lesson 3 in which the f and t are taught.</p> <p style="text-align:center" align="center">fff fttf fttf aaa ttt at at at ffttf ffttf fat (do three times)<br />at fat fats; fl fl flat flats; ffttf fttf fat; (do three times)<br />at: slat; slat slats; flat flats; sat fat; (do three times)<br /><br />fff fttf all fall falls; all tall stall stalls (do three times)<br />all tall; all tall stall; all fall falls; all tall; (do three times)<br />fast last; last fast; fast last; fast fast fast; (do three times)<br /><br />fff fad fads; ddd dad dads; lll lad lads; (do three times)<br />ttt at fat fats; flat flats; sat at fat; ;;; (do three times)<br />a fat dad sat; at last a fast lad; alas; (do three times)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">This is the order of presentation that is used in Individualized Keyboarding.<br />Another ordering that works well and can be used for the teaching of handwriting as well is: abcd rst y efgh w ingklm opqu vxz. One letter per lesson or unit and using only the letters available to teach words that have the same patterns. (From: <a href="http://avko.org/startingatsquareone.html"><i>Starting at Square One</i></a>)</p> <p>Making their own keyboarding program can be very rewarding for parents as well as saving them the cost of purchasing such a program. For those parents who would rather purchase a ready-made program, we do believe that you might want to compare the AVKO's non-commercial program with any of the other programs on the market. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.avko.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.avko.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.spelling.org/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.spelling.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>Robert McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17131570836139227272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368924222577751259.post-84527076127341078342012-02-17T09:16:00.001-05:002012-02-17T09:17:57.982-05:00Latin and Greek 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mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Latin and Greek Roots</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">For a complete listing of all the roots<br />and all the words available for learning using the roots,<br />consult </span><a href="http://www.avko.org/patternsofenglishspelling.html"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">The Patterns of English Spelling</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> <div align="center"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:86.0%;mso-cellspacing:3.7pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" width="86%"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Root</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:18.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="18%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">From</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Meaning</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">A Few Samples</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">act</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">do</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">action activate active actor acting</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">acu</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">sharpen</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">acute accurate acupuncture</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">aero</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Greek</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">wind</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">aeroplane aeronautics aeronautical</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">aesth</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Greek</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">feel</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">aesthetics anaesthesia anaesthesiologist</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">agrie</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">field</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">agriculture agronomy agronomist</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:6"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">alt</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">high</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">altitude altimeter</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:7"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">alter</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">change</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">alternate alternative alterations altering</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:8"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">ambul</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">walk</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">ambulance ambulate ambulatory amble</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:9"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">amo, ami</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">love</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">amour amiable amorous amateur amity</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:10"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">andr</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Greek</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">man</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Andrew android androgynous polyandry</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:11"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">ang</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">bend</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">angle angular triangle triangular mangle</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:12"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">anima</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">life</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">animal animated inanimate animosity</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:13"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">ann, enn</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">year</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">annual perennial biennial anniversary</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:14"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">anthr</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Greek</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">man</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">anthropology philanthropy anthropoid</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:15"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">apt, ept</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">suitable</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">apt aptitude adapt inept ineptitude</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:16"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">aqua</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">water</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">aquarium Aquarius aqueous aquamarine</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:17"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">arch</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Greek</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">chief</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">monarch architect architecture archbishop</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:18"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">archae</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Greek</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">old</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:32.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">archaeology archaeologist archaic archives</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:19"> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">art</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:12.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="12%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latin</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> <td style="width:15.0%;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt" width="15%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New 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style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-indent:.5in">What if I don’t need another new spelling program? What can I do to make my existing spelling program work? Just as sometimes it’s more economical to fix the automobile you have than to go out and buy a new car, sometimes a teacher or parent can make the most of what they already have. Assuming the spelling program you now have has word lists, give the list of words as a pre-test. The words that are missed should be the basis for study—but NOT studied for themselves. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-indent:.3in">For example, supposing your list was this: rainy, bruise, brother, treaty, ready, county, water, pretty, again, trouble, early, circle, father, around, quiet, nothing, instead, twenty, other, bottle, dreary, country, heavy, rather, mirror. This, by the way, is an actual list from a best selling spelling series. I just opened the level 4 book at random and decided to work with it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-indent:.3in">A good speller would know all the words except perhaps <i>bruise</i>, <i>quiet</i>, and <i>circle</i>. Now traditional methods would have the child write the words a number of times and then test and re-test on those words until they are memorized. The AVKO method would entail looking up these words in the index of The Patterns of English Spelling (FREE to AVKO members on the member portion of the website) and going to the respective pages indicated. For <i>circle </i>the page would be 611 on which the words with the ending cle pattern is found. Now, using the <i>Sequential Spelling</i> technique, I would give the words <i>miracle, spectacle, obstacle, icicle, vehicle, article, particle, encircle, cycle, recycle, uncle </i>and<i> bicycle.</i> Immediately after each word would be given and my student attempted the spelling, I would give the correct spelling orally and in writing. He would hear it and see it, and if necessary erase the misspelling and spell it correctly. Then, and only then would I go on to the next word. Notice I only picked an even dozen out of the seventy-five ending cle words. You could pick however many words as you want.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-indent:.3in">You could even from that same page point out the funny “u” the gets stuck between the c and l in words such as <i>circular</i>, <i>spectacular</i>, <i>vehicular</i>, <i>muscular</i>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-indent:.3in">With bruise you are directed to page 435 where you find only <i>bruise</i> and <i>cruise</i> plus their structural endings as in bruises, bruised, bruising and bruiser. However, the homophones of <i>brews</i> and <i>crews</i> and <i>Cruz</i> are there for you to use or not use at your discretion. Again, we would recommend using the Sequential Spelling technique.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-indent:.3in">When we look up quiet in the index it directs to page 685. There we have <i>diet, diets, dieted, dieting, </i>and<i> dietary </i>that fit right in with<i> quiet, quiets, quieted, quieting, </i>and<i> quietly</i>. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Now if your child misses more than three of the assigned words in the lesson don’t try to teach all of them. Just pick two or three. And use The Sequential Spelling Technique. Forget the studying. Just out of the blue test and correct the misspellings. Keep reminding your children that “Mistakes are Opportunities to Learn” and that they can remember anything if they forget it enough times! </span><a href="http://avko.org/free/instructional/how_to_develop_your_own_sequenti.htm"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Learn how to create your own Sequential Spelling Tests</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.avko.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.avko.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.spelling.org/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">www.spelling.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>Robert 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<p> </p> <p>A rotating lithodial fragment never accrues lichen.</p> <p>OR</p> <p>A rolling stone gathers no moss.</p> <p> </p> <p>The individual organism of the class Aves, arriving before the appointed time, seizes the elongated soft bodies invertebrate annelid.</p> <p>OR</p> <p>The early bird gets the worm.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>You cannot estimate the value of the contents of a bound, printed narrative or record from the nature or description of its exterior vesture.</p> <p>OR</p> <p>You can’t judge a book by its cover.</p> <p> </p> <p>You may guide an equine to an aqueous reservoir, but inducing it to imbibe is not always within the parameters of realization.</p> <p>OR </p> <p>You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.</p> <p><a href="http://www.avko.org/">www.avko.org</a></p>Robert 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style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> 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.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">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 the use of color coding when writing the words on a dry erase or chalkboard, or the very worst is when they proceed through the words without giving immediate feedback, or allowing the student time to erase and make immediate corrections.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">The AVKO process is about giving your student the opportunity to use four of their five senses to learn. (If we could think of a way for them to use their olfactory [sense of smell] with all words, we'd promote that too!) 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(student) <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b>O</b>ral</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">Here is a short hand version of the directions:</span></u></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">Say the word, use in sentence, repeat the word,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">IN<span style="color:blue"></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">The student says word.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"> <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="color:blue"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><b>S</b></span><b>IN<span style="color:#66CC33"></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">Student writes in SRB - Parent color codes it on board</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:blue"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span><b>P</b></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">IN<span style="color:#66CC33"></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">Student compares what he wrote with what you wrote: <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:blue">SP</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">IN<span style="color:#66CC33"></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"><span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">if correct, on to the next word.<span style="mso-tab-count:4"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="color:blue"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><b>SP</b></span><b>IN<span style="color:#FF9900">NING</span></b><span style="color:lime"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>if w</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">rong - student erases IMMEDIATELY CORRECTS !</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Immediate correction is the key to the most effective method to learn spelling.</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">How to REINFORCE Spelling Words</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Check out the various writing assignments AVKO has developed in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Engaging Language Kits 1-7</i> meant to be used in tandem with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Sequential Spelling 1-7</i> for students who respond to writing reinforcement.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br />Using the spelling words in a writing assignment is a great method for tucking them into long term memory. However, students can only do so many writing assignments. Real-life situations in game playing are the best, most eye-opening training camp. Playing Word Games teaches much more beyond correct spelling. It can teach sportsmanship, fairness, rules, strategy, planning ahead, playing with a partner, communication skills, how to have fun with a sibling and just plain ole' sharing laughter with friends and family. <br /></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-tab-count:13"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">How to REINFORCE Spelling Words</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">PLAYING WORD GAMES</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br />AVKO has several suggested links on our web site to Eons, Bible, Great Day, Secret Files and many other word games links are available.</span><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Best Word Games:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">are FUN yet learning takes place</i></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Wheel of Fortune:</span></u></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> Overall Best word game to play- (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.gamehouse.com/online-games/wheel-of-fortune-online">http://www.gamehouse.com/online-games/wheel-of-fortune-online</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">)<br />Teach strategies: <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>1. knowing the most common letters in English 2. thinking of the ending patterns - ing, -ness, -tion the -n has a different placement in each one. 3. letters that are commonly found together th, ex, qu, and at the ends of words –nd<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>4. watch the game on TV and practice figuring out the quiz.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Hang Man</span></u></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> using the current spelling words... and some of the harder words from the past word families.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2278137_play-hangman-help-teach-reading.html">http://www.ehow.com/how_2278137_play-hangman-help-teach-reading.html</a></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Scrabble</span></u></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> - two or more players, based partly on the luck of the draw, plus requires strategy thinking.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> 1. Ask yourself, what can I add to the other player(s) word to lengthen it?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A prefix or suffix: so regular becomes <b><u>ir</u></b>regular or respond becomes respond<b><u>ed</u>.</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> 2. What new word can I create from one or more letters on the board, plus which of my letters will give me</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>the most points?</span><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></u></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">AVKO-Scrabble</span></u></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> – 1 to 4 players. A player selects a word from current or past spelling lists and finds those letters from the Scrabble squares. Use a cup or plastic drinking glass to shake and dump the letters on a table. The other three players turn over the letters and work out which spelling word it is. First one to call out the word within 3 minutes gets the point. The first to reach 10 points is the winner. </span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Taboo</span></u></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> </span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">- The idea of the game is to get your teammates to say a particular spelling word. You write down a spelling word, keeping it tucked in your pocket and try to get your teammates to say that word by using clues only, and not saying certain words that are too related to the word. For example, if the word was 'television' you could give clues such as "a thing that you watch shows on, something you watch NBC on" or other related clues, but not "what the letters TV stand for" The harder the word you choose, the more difficult it is to find the appropriate clues and get your teammates to guess.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Sidewalk Hopscotch </span></u></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">- Give your student(s) each a piece of chalk and have them draw 12 to 16 LARGE rectangles in singles and doubles on the driveway or sidewalk. Fill in each rectangle with a different spelling word. Use a small rough stone with lots of edges and let them roll it toward their target word. The rectangle it lands nearest is their word. They hop to the word, pick up the stone, look up at the sky and spell the word aloud. If they spell it correctly they go forward from that word. If they spell it incorrectly, they have to come back to their last position. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The goal is to go to the end and come back first. The winner should get some sort of prize. I like a home-made Crown for the King or Queen of the Hopscotch! Of course the King or Queen get to do a Victory Dance, making it all the more fun!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Table-Top Hopscotch</span></u></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">- played in-doors for winter games or if you have no sidewalks</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">or paved driveways. It is played the same way except using paper. (Tape two pieces or more together.) Use a small piece of paper wadded into a ball as your stone. And instead of hopping by foot they hop their fingers over the course, slapping their hand over the target word they are to spell. Without peeking, they spell the word to you. If correct, put a bingo chip or paperclip there to mark it while the next player has his turn. If not correct they go back to their previous position. 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Be sure the drawing expresses some feeling of the word meaning. Hang up drawings around schooling area. When you have five or more pix start a weekly game where you either show them the word and they have to tell the meaning of the word by describing the picture OR they look at picture and tell what word it represents.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">3. On the opposite (B) page</b></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">,</b> you will find sentences using the word family words in context. Divide into four sections. Use the sentences for dictation, typing, handwriting and reading comprehension practice. 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For instructions on how to go about making your own <i>Sequential Spelling</i> tests, see our <a href="http://www.avko.org/free/instructional/how_to_develop_your_own_sequenti.htm">article</a> on it. The basic process involves:</p> <ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><b><i>Determine which word families your student has not mastered. <br /> </i></b>You can use <a href="http://www.avko.org/712.html"><i>Individualized Spelling</i></a> for a collection of pre-tests to determine which families are not known. You could also do your own spot checking of word families using <a href="http://www.avko.org/patternsofenglishspelling.html"><i>The Patterns of English Spelling</i></a>'s listing of word families and all of the words that belong to them. </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><b><i>Assemble the Sequential Spelling lists.<br /> </i></b>Turn to the word family's page(s) in <a href="http://www.avko.org/patternsofenglishspelling.html"><i>The Patterns of English Spelling</i></a> and then select the words that you want to test. For help in determining the order of presentation of the word families you will teach, you may wish to consult the <a href="http://www.avko.org/ssscope.html">scope and sequence</a> of word families throughout the <a href="http://www.avko.org/sequentialspelling.html"><i>Sequential Spelling</i></a> books.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><b><i>Administer the Spelling tests using the AVKO method</i></b>.<br /> See the reminders above and/or read the <a href="http://www.avko.org/Samples/SSH/301.pdf">complete instructions</a> of <a href="http://www.avko.org/sequentialspelling.html"><i>Sequential Spelling</i></a>.</li></ol> <p>Note: A complete set of <i>Sequential Spelling </i>costs $134.95 and includes all seven levels with seven <a href="http://www.avko.org/310.html"><i>Student Response Books</i></a>. 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mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Heading2Char"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Using Microsoft Word, Find the Grade Level of any Document, </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><br /></span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">or report, thesis, letter, article or any written document.<span style="mso-tab-count:5"> </span> <span style=""> <br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>By Gloria Goldsmith</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Microsoft Word has a program within it of which most computer users, including homeschoolers, are NOT aware. Microsoft has incorporated the very helpful Flesh-Kincaid Readability scores in the Word program. This means you have a source available, right at your fingertips, to determine the grade level of every book in your house! Plus, high school and college students can check if their compositions are up to their grade level or higher before submission.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%">READABILITY SCALE<br /></span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">The scale that will appear in Word has three sections of information: Counts, Averages, and Readability. The first two are self explanatory; the third section contains Passive Sentences, Flesch Reading Ease and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Passive Sentences<br /></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Important to understand for composition purposes, it is not important for our grade level information. Information can be found on the web regarding the meaning of the passive voice. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Flesch Reading Ease</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br />Based on a 100 point scale, the higher the score, the easier it is to understand (comprehend) the passage. </span></p> <table class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-table-overlap:never;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-table-lspace:9.0pt; margin-left:6.75pt;mso-table-rspace:9.0pt;margin-right:6.75pt;mso-table-anchor-vertical: paragraph;mso-table-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-table-left:60.55pt; mso-table-top:.05pt;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td style="width:70.8pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="94"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap: around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column;mso-element-left:60.6pt;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Score</span></b></p> </td> <td style="width:301.5pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="402"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap: around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column;mso-element-left:60.6pt;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Meaning</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1"> <td style="width:70.8pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="94"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap: around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column;mso-element-left:60.6pt;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">90.0 - 100.0</span></p> </td> <td style="width:301.5pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="402"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap: around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column;mso-element-left:60.6pt;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Easily understandable by average 11 year old student</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="width:70.8pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="94"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap: around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column;mso-element-left:60.6pt;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">60.0 - 70.0</span></p> </td> <td style="width:301.5pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="402"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap: around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column;mso-element-left:60.6pt;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Easily understandable by average 13 -15 year old student</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="width:70.8pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="94"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap: around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column;mso-element-left:60.6pt;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>0.0 - 30.0</span></p> </td> <td style="width:301.5pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="402"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap: around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column;mso-element-left:60.6pt;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Best understood by University Graduate</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br clear="all"><br />The standard readability desired is 60 -70.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A few examples give more clarity: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone</i> is 100, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Charlotte’s Web</i> is 83, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Reader’s Digest</i> is 65, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Time</i> magazine is 52, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Harvard Law Review</i> is in the low 30’s.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level<br /></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">A specific formula is used that computes the number of syllables, words and sentences in a passage which is translated to Grade level information.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>How To Use</u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%"> </span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%"><br />For all grades, select THREE passages: one from the beginning, middle and end of the book. In order to receive <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">accurate</b> grade level information and the higher the probable grade level, the more important it is to use three passages from different areas of the book.<br /><u>Early Grades (1, 2, 3)</u> - you probably will type an entire page or two (at least five sequential sentences) from the beginning, middle and end, just as they appear in the book.<br /><u>Grades 4 and up</u> – Select a paragraph of five or more sentences from the beginning, middle and end of the story. Obviously, the higher the grade level, the longer the sentences and paragraphs will be.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%">To Activate Word’s Readability Statistics:<br /></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Word is Microsoft’s word processing program. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">WORD 2002<br /></span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Open the Word program.<br />Find <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Tools </b>and click on it, go to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Options</b>. This will bring up a new window with several tabs.<br />Select <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Spelling & Grammar Tab</b>, go to Grammar section, check box for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">“Show Readability Statistics”</b> and click <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">OK </b>at bottom of window.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">To Use Activated Program</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br />Type in the three selected passages. Go to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Tools </b>(at top) select <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Spelling and Grammar.<br /></b>If the program thinks it has found a misspelling or grammar error a box will come up allowing you to fix or ignore. Once you have moved through all perceived errors the statistics window will pop up. If you own the book, on the copyright page write the grade level (Example:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>GL: 4), this will save you time down the road. If it’s a borrowed book write the information on a post-it note, placing it on the copyright page.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="text-decoration: none"> </span></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Word 2007<br /></span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Open the program and click on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Microsoft Office Button</b> located in upper left corner.<br />At the bottom of new small window, click on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">“Word Options”.<br /></b>A large window appears with two sections, in the left section click on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">“Proofing”.<br /></b>On the right, find the heading “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">When Correcting Spelling and Grammar in Word”</b>; check the box beside “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Show Readability Statistics”.<br /></b>Click <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">OK</b> at bottom of window<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">.</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">To Use Activated Program<br /></span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Click on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Review </b>Tab, on the far left click on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Spelling and Grammar</b>. If the program thinks it has found a misspelling or grammar error a box will come up allowing you to fix or ignore. Once you have moved through all perceived errors the statistics window will pop up. If you own the book write the grade level on the copyright page (Example:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>GL: 4), this will save you time down the road. 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New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br />For flights or long commutes, why lug both an MP3 player and something to read? An iPod can be both. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Step 1:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""> <b>Set up Notes.</b> Enable your iPod as an external hard drive by plugging it into your computer, starting iTunes, and selecting the Preferences option under the Edit menu. Once inside, select the iPod tab and click the button "Manually manage songs and playlists." Now you can access the iPod from Macs or PCs like you would any external hard drive or USB memory stick. (Visit </span><a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:blue">Apple's site</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> for a more thorough explanation.)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Step 2: Get books.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""> Visit </span><a href="http://manybooks.net/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:blue">manybooks.net</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">, which offers over 11,000 free titles, each downloadable as a zipped folder of 4-kilobyte "chapters" (the largest text file size the iPod supports). You won't find recent blockbusters like The <i>Da Vinci Code</i>; the site features only works no longer protected by copyright. But that includes a few thousand years worth of literature. You can also read any material available in digital form by cutting and pasting it into a text file and uploading it to the iPod eBook Creator site at </span><a href="http://www.ambience.sk/ipod-ebook-creator/ipod-book-notes-text-conversion.php"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:blue">ambience.sk/ipod-ebook-creator</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">. The site formats the text and returns a collection of chapters like those you get from manybooks.net.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Step 3: Load up and read.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""> Drag the chapter files into the Notes folder of you iPod. Tip: You can create a folder in Notes with the book's name to hold all chapters. Now disconnect your iPod, and under its main menu select Extras and then Notes. Navigate the book folders and individual chapters just as you would albums and song tracks.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">www.avko.org</span></p>Robert McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17131570836139227272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368924222577751259.post-72702622612866883022012-02-01T10:06:00.000-05:002012-02-01T10:07:28.826-05:00FOR LEXOPHILES<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> 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Probably not true. But it's a great story.</span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">There was a poor Scottish farmer named Fleming. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools<span style="color:#004080"> </span>and ran to the bog.<br /><br />There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.<br /><br />The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.<br />'I want to repay you,' said the nobleman. 'You saved my son's life.'<br />'No, I can't accept payment for what I did,' the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.<br />'Is that your son?' the nobleman asked.<br />'Yes,' the farmer replied proudly.<br />'I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.' And that he did.<br />Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.<br />Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.<br />What saved his life this time? Penicillin.<br /><br />The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill . His son's name?<br /><br />Sir Winston Churchill.<br /><br />Someone once said: What goes around comes around.<br /><br />Work like you don't need the money.<br />Love like you've never been hurt.<br />Dance like nobody's watching.<br />Sing like nobody's listening.<br />Live like it's Heaven on Earth.<br /><br /><br />An Irish Blessing:<br /><br />I hope it works...<br /><br />May there always be work for your hands to do;<br />May your purse always hold a coin or two;<br />May the sun always shine on your windowpane;<br />May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;<br />May the hand of a friend always be near you;<br />May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.<br />and may you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> <p><a href="http://www.avko.org/">www.avko.org</a></p> <p> </p>Robert 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Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">How to Get the Most from the</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> AVKO Sequential Spelling Program</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">by Gloria Goldsmith</span><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Follow the Directions</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Sequential Spelling:</span></u></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> 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.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">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 the use of color coding when writing the words on a dry erase or chalkboard, or the very worst is when they proceed through the words without giving immediate feedback, or allowing the student time to erase and make immediate corrections.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">The AVKO process is about giving your student the opportunity to use four of their five senses to learn. (If we could think of a way for them to use their olfactory [sense of smell] with all words, we'd promote that too!) For the best opportunity for comprehension and recall, the student must have AVKO sensory involvement that Following-the-Directions provide.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">Hear</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black"> the word, as Parent says it, uses it in a sentence<span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span><b>A</b>uditory</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">See </span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black">the word written in color coded described method. <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b>V</b>isual</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">Feel </span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black">the "muscle memory" helping to shape the letters <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b>K</b>inesthetic</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">Say</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black"> the word, pronounce the word out loud. (student) <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b>O</b>ral</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">Here is a short hand version of the directions:</span></u></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">Say the word, use in sentence, repeat the word,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">IN<span style="color:blue"></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">The student says word.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"> <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="color:blue"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><b>S</b></span><b>IN<span style="color:#66CC33"></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">Student writes in SRB - Parent color codes it on board</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:blue"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><b>P</b></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">IN<span style="color:#66CC33"></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black">Student compares what he wrote with what you wrote: <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:blue">SP</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">IN<span style="color:#66CC33"></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"><span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">if correct, on to the next word.<span style="mso-tab-count:4"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="color:blue"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><b>SP</b></span><b>IN<span style="color:#FF9900">NING</span></b><span style="color:lime"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>if w</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">rong - student erases IMMEDIATELY CORRECTS !</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Immediate correction is the key to the most effective method to learn spelling.</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4F604F"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">How to REINFORCE Spelling Words</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Check out the various writing assignments AVKO has developed in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Engaging Language Kits 1-7</i> meant to be used in tandem with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Sequential Spelling 1-7</i> for students who respond to writing reinforcement.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br />Using the spelling words in a writing assignment is a great method for tucking them into long term memory. However, students can only do so many writing assignments. Real-life situations in game playing are the best, most eye-opening training camp. Playing Word Games teaches much more beyond correct spelling. It can teach sportsmanship, fairness, rules, strategy, planning ahead, playing with a partner, communication skills, how to have fun with a sibling and just plain ole' sharing laughter with friends and family. <br /></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-tab-count:13"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">How to REINFORCE Spelling Words</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">PLAYING WORD GAMES</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br />AVKO has several suggested links on our web site to Eons, Bible, Great Day, Secret Files and many other word games links are available.</span><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Best Word Games:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">are FUN yet learning takes place</i></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Wheel of Fortune:</span></u></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> Overall Best word game to play- (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.gamehouse.com/online-games/wheel-of-fortune-online">http://www.gamehouse.com/online-games/wheel-of-fortune-online</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">)<br />Teach strategies: <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>1. knowing the most common letters in English 2. thinking of the ending patterns - ing, -ness, -tion the -n has a different placement in each one. 3. letters that are commonly found together th, ex, qu, and at the ends of words –nd<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>4. watch the game on TV and practice figuring out the quiz.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Hang Man</span></u></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> using the current spelling words... and some of the harder words from the past word families.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2278137_play-hangman-help-teach-reading.html">http://www.ehow.com/how_2278137_play-hangman-help-teach-reading.html</a></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Scrabble</span></u></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> - two or more players, based partly on the luck of the draw, plus requires strategy thinking.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> 1. Ask yourself, what can I add to the other player(s) word to lengthen it?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A prefix or suffix: so regular becomes <b><u>ir</u></b>regular or respond becomes respond<b><u>ed</u>.</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> 2. What new word can I create from one or more letters on the board, plus which of my letters will give me</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>the most points?</span><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></u></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">AVKO-Scrabble</span></u></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> – 1 to 4 players. A player selects a word from current or past spelling lists and finds those letters from the Scrabble squares. Use a cup or plastic drinking glass to shake and dump the letters on a table. The other three players turn over the letters and work out which spelling word it is. First one to call out the word within 3 minutes gets the point. The first to reach 10 points is the winner. </span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Taboo</span></u></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> </span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">- The idea of the game is to get your teammates to say a particular spelling word. You write down a spelling word, keeping it tucked in your pocket and try to get your teammates to say that word by using clues only, and not saying certain words that are too related to the word. For example, if the word was 'television' you could give clues such as "a thing that you watch shows on, something you watch NBC on" or other related clues, but not "what the letters TV stand for" The harder the word you choose, the more difficult it is to find the appropriate clues and get your teammates to guess.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Sidewalk Hopscotch </span></u></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">- Give your student(s) each a piece of chalk and have them draw 12 to 16 LARGE rectangles in singles and doubles on the driveway or sidewalk. Fill in each rectangle with a different spelling word. Use a small rough stone with lots of edges and let them roll it toward their target word. The rectangle it lands nearest is their word. They hop to the word, pick up the stone, look up at the sky and spell the word aloud. If they spell it correctly they go forward from that word. If they spell it incorrectly, they have to come back to their last position. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The goal is to go to the end and come back first. The winner should get some sort of prize. I like a home-made Crown for the King or Queen of the Hopscotch! Of course the King or Queen get to do a Victory Dance, making it all the more fun!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Table-Top Hopscotch</span></u></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">- played in-doors for winter games or if you have no sidewalks</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">or paved driveways. It is played the same way except using paper. (Tape two pieces or more together.) 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style="font-size:18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Whole Language</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">What It Is, What It Isn't</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">by</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Mary Bowman-Kruhm, Ed.D.<br /> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Faculty</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Associate, Johns Hopkins University</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br /> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">School of Professional Studies in Business and Education</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Whole language back in the 1960s and 70s was called the psycholinguistic approach to reading. Thankfully, that name gave way to the term whole language, which more accurately describes it, as well as being a lot easier to spell. What is whole language? Whole language is</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">an approach;</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">a philosophy;</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">a framework;</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">a theory;</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">an orientation.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">It is not a program for teaching reading.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Some people long for whole language to be a program. "Tell me how to teach whole language," they beg. These are rigid people who delight in having educational methods spelled out. You know them:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">the teacher who follows every line in a basal reader teacher’s guide;</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">the teacher who equates nirvana with having a manual that says, "Next tell the students to…"; or</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">the parent who is positive his or her child will learn to read only if X program is religiously followed.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Some people, such as those described above, will never embrace a whole language approach. And they shouldn’t. They will be most comfortable with a structured program which lays out short-term objectives concretely and gives specific activities for first testing, then teaching, and then re-testing those objectives. And they can best teach that with which they are comfortable.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Some students also benefit from such structured programs. Many students, especially those identified as having learning problems or for whom other strategies have not worked, need this type of sequential and orderly program. But, unless they are teaching such students, many teachers like to do their own thing. They are adept at adopting and adapting strategies and techniques and plans to meet the needs of their students. For these creative souls, whole language is an approach to teaching reading that provides them with the orientation to reading they seek. And many students thrive in reading the varied materials that are part of a whole language approach to reading.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Advocates for phonics and skills (i.e., teaching by objectives) models continue to criticize the whole language model as having caused reading problems for many students. An aside that seems relevant here, even if I am being very foolish to get into the middle of the whole language/phonics/skills debate: Prior to whole language many, many students had reading problems. Some critics of whole language make it sound as if whole language created an atmosphere in which students haven’t learned to read. Not true. The phonics and skills models did not work for everyone. While some students may not learn to read through a whole language approach, whole language initially gained support because the phonics and skills models did not work for large numbers of students.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Then, as now, a good teacher must look at his or her students, assess need, and make appropriate recommendations and instructional decisions. Basically, most aspects of the three models are similar. The differences are in degree and in how teachers carry them out in the classroom.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Example One: Whole language people believe a reader makes minimal use of graphics, using the visual array on the page only enough to get meaning. In a phonics or skills model, the print is of major importance and meaning is pretty much assumed.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Example Two: In teaching, say for instance character development in a story, the whole language teacher might use a story map, a web, a reading guide, have the students act out parts, write a paragraph, etc. The skills teacher would have the students answer questions about the characters and perhaps have a class discussion after reading the story.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Experienced teachers are way beyond the stupid argument of whole language vs. other models. While the beginning teacher may need to resort to orthodox, time-honored, and safe teaching techniques, the experienced teacher feels free to pick and choose from a varied menu of teaching strategies, according to student needs. Experienced teachers, both elementary and secondary, regular and special education, use so many whole language-oriented activities that the argument is a moot one. One need only look at the basic components of a whole language model and see that whole language not only can be but is indeed translated from theory into substance in many of today’s classrooms.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">What are the characteristics of a whole language model? Here are the basics and, in brackets, a few examples of the ways teachers translate them into classroom activities:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Meaning is at the core of the reading process; one reads to think and to comprehend. [trade books, Internet, games]</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">*A reader uses three cuing systems:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></li></ul> <ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">the graphic (printed visual array);</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">the syntactic (conventions and consistencies of the language’s structure);</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">and the semantic (meaning or comprehension, including background information and personal previous experiences). [graphic organizers, Language Experience Approach (L.E.A.) and Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA), writing books and stories]</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></li></ol> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Reading is an interactive process which requires the reader to use his or her prior knowledge to make sense of the author’s words. [DRTA, reading, reflection, and listening guides]</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Reading materials must be authentic, real life, meaning-centered. [core books, varied reading materials, including magazines, plays, functionalmaterials]</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Writing, the flip side of reading, is equally important. [journal writing, word processing on a computer]</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Reading involves an array of reader strategies, such as predicting meaning and using metacognitive skills, and these strategies should be taught beginning when a child enters school and continuing throughout school life. Inherent here is the strong view that reading is not a hierarchy of skills, with more advanced skills taught as a child progresses through the grades. [textual organization, reciprocal teaching, being aware when one doesn’t understand and using fix-up strategies]</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Who is a practitioner of a whole language approach? A teacher who, based on the above characteristics, develops lessons which have sound goals and objectives and uses meaningful activities that motivate and involve students to reach those goals and objectives.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">How do you now assess yourself and your teaching?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.avko.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.avko.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><a href="http://www.spelling.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.spelling.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>Robert McCabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17131570836139227272noreply@blogger.com0