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Monday, August 2, 2010
You Can't Teach what You Know if You Don't Know You Know It
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Meet and Greet Times with Don McCabe Available!
Don McCabe will be available for meetings in various international locations. Please e-mail Don to set up a time to meet.
- Johannesburg, South Africa, August 10-12
- Cape Town, South Africa, August 13 -17
- Sydney, Australia (available in the evenings Thursday & Friday, October 21 and 22.
- Available from 10am to 4 pm Fjordland, New Zealand Tuesday October 26.
- Available from 10 am to 4pm Fort Chalmers, New Zealand Wednesday, October 27.
- Available 10 am to 4pm Akarroa, New Zealand October 28. Available 10-4, Wellington New Zealand 10/29.
- Available 10-4 Auckland, NZ, 10/31.
- Availale11-3, Suva Fiji 11/3. 10-2, Pago Pago 11/4.
- 11-2, Moorea, French Polynesia 11/7.
- 11-2, Papeete, Taihiti, French Polynesia, 11/8
- 11-2, Bora Bora, French Polynesia, 11/9
- 10-5 Honolulu, Hawaii. 11/14
- 11-2 Maui (Lahaina), USA 11/15
Saturday, November 14, 2009
New Handwriting iPhone App from Kate Gladstone
Yes -- the iPhone/iPodTouch application Kate Gladstone has been developing is finally out!
See the informational page (includes download link for
iPhone/iPodTouch users) at
http://www.deeppocketseries.com/Better_Letters.php .
If you know anyone who has (or whose children have)
/a/ an iPhone or an iPodTouch,
/b/ US$2.99,
and
/c/ handwriting that could use some help
how about mentioning the app to him or her?
See the informational page (includes download link for
iPhone/iPodTouch users) at
http://www.deeppocketseries.
If you know anyone who has (or whose children have)
/a/ an iPhone or an iPodTouch,
/b/ US$2.99,
and
/c/ handwriting that could use some help
how about mentioning the app to him or her?
Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone
http://www.
Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works
and the World Handwriting Contest
6-B Weis Road, Albany, NY 12208-1942
518/482-6763 - handwritingrepair@gmail.com
Twitter -- http://www.twitter.com/
SONGS OF PENDOM -- http://stores.lulu.com/
POLITICIAN LEGIBILITY ACT Petition --
http://www.iPetitions.com/
Monday, August 31, 2009
Review of Don McCabe's, Get Outta Mah Face! Get Offa Mah Case!, by Dr. J. Oatman, Ph.D.
Don McCabe’s, Get Otta Mah Face! Get Offa Mah Case!, provides clear understanding of the importance of language, verbal and body in relationships with others.
Illustrations of positive and negative effects of language and suggestions for assisting family, staff and students to adapt behavior are included. Ideas such as, family and staff training sessions, student role playing and classroom games are detailed.
Emphasis also is given to students’ beliefs about themselves and others which affect personal interactions and practical tools for implementing change are described. Suggestions are given for use in Schools, Business, Family and Correctional Settings.
J. Oatman, Ph.D.,
08/30/2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Become an Institutional Member Today
Posted by Brian McCabe, Brian@avko.org
AVKO has recently revamped Institutional Membership, increasing the resources offered as well as the discount. Everyone can become an Institutional Member, not just schools, non-profits, tutoring centers, etc. and can reap the benefits.
The newest e-books are available for free download with Institutional Membership, including the Word Family Supplements 1-7 (that correspond to each of the levels of Sequential Spelling) and the Spelling Remediation Test Kit (which has 17 pre-tests, diagnostic tests, and prescriptive tests for remediation and evaluation of spelling and reading level). Additionally, Institutional Members have read-only access to all of the other AVKO materials (excluding Sequential Spelling and Engaging Language Kits). They can read and use the entire books of the other AVKO supplemental and reference materials from the internet, but cannot download or print them.
Benefits of AVKO Institutional Membership
Institutional Membership is open to individuals as well as tutoring centers, schools, learning centers, homeschool resource centers, etc.
- Access to all of the benefits of AVKO's Individual Membership (see below)
- 25% discount off all materials ordered
- Read-only access to ALL AVKO curriculum materials (except for Sequential Spelling and Engaging Language Kits)
- Access to AVKO's newest e-books:
- Word Family Supplements 1-7 for Sequential Spelling
- Spelling Remediation Test Kit
If you are currently an individual member, you may upgrade your membership to an Institutional Membership for only $50 from now until the end of August. E-mail info@avko.org or call AVKO at 810.686.9283 or toll-free at 1-866-285-6612 to do this.
Learn more about membership hereMonday, July 27, 2009
New AVKO Resource: Sequential Spelling Word Family Supplement E-books
Posted by Brian McCabe, Brian@avko.org
AVKO is proud to announce that we have launched a new e-book resource series called Sequential Spelling Word Family Supplements. These invaluable e-books correspond to each of the Sequential Spelling levels and contain the pages from The Patterns of English Spelling: Combined with Word Families in Sentence Context for ALL of the major word families presented. This means that you can quickly turn to see all of the other words in a particular word family being tested, as well as have a bank of contextual sentences for the most common words. These can be used for dictation exercises, vocabulary building, choral reading, reading practice, handwriting practice, keyboarding practice, and more! These e-books are available for $7.50 apiece on Scribd.com
Friday, July 24, 2009
New AVKO Resource for Testing Spelling and Reading Levels
Posted by Brian McCabe, Brian@avko.org
AVKO has introduced a new e-book resource: a collection of diagnostic, prescriptive, and pre-tests for spelling and reading. This collection of 17 tests written by Don McCabe will allow you to quickly determine which spelling patterns your students need to learn, where they should be placed in Sequential Spelling (or another spelling program), and how to best remediate their spelling. This collection will also give you all of the information you need to quickly create your own spelling program. These tests can also be used for ESL instruction, special education, creating an IEP, and many other things!
This is available for purchase from AVKO for only $5.00 from the Scribd website. You can see all of AVKO's documents on Scribd here.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Become an AVKO Commissioned Salesperson -- Now Even Easier
Posted by Brian McCabe, Brian@AVKO.org
AVKO has a commissioned sales program where you can earn 10% for each and every sale that you refer to us. We have now made it even easier for you to earn money: All you have to do is enroll as an AVKO commissioned salesperson ("associate") and then when people click on the link that you send them or that you have posted on your blog, e-mail signature, website, etc. and purchase something from us, you earn 10%. You can even log in and track your earnings.
For more information and tips on how to earn more money, see the sales section of our website; also visit the Retailer Resources section of the website for advertising and product graphics, ISBNs and SKUs, and more. Remember that you can also earn bonuses for getting new schools and bookstores to carry or purchase AVKO materials. Also, do not hesitate to contact Brian at Brian@avko.org for more information.
Monday, July 13, 2009
A New Material by Kate Gladstone of Handwriting Repair to Come Out Soon
Posted by Kate Gladstone of Handwriting Repair
A good friend of AVKO, Kate Gladstone, has an upcoming product launching. Since many of AVKO's members have problems with handwriting (and/or dysgraphia), and since Kate is a pre-eminent handwriting specialist, we are excited to share this new product information with you. We will keep you posted with updates:
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If "handwriting can't matter" in the Cyber Age ...
... why does the SAT exam now include a timed, handwritten essay?
... why do most employers still require applicants to complete one or more forms by hand?
... why do hundreds of blog entries and Twitter posts daily describe the blogger's or poster's poor handwriting or complain about the poor handwriting of others?
Computers will never completely replace other writing tools -- not unless someone can invent a computer the size of a pencil or pen, costing the same as a pencil or pen, and needing no electric power supply. (After Hurricane Katrina, millions of teachers and students who had supposed that "handwriting can't matter" learned otherwise when they had to spend a school year without computers.)
Computers and cell-phones haven't eliminated handwriting -- they have merely tempted people to stop teaching and learning the subject. This may change in September, though. As millions of schoolchildren head back to the classrooms, expect AVKO.org to announce a startling new product that may forever change the way we think about teaching, learning, and using handwriting.
Stay tuned ...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Make a Collage...or Découpage with Words
A fun summer activity you can do with your kids is to make a collage or découpage project. To make this education, you can use snippets from old encyclopedia, discarded (and tattered books) from the library, magazines, your own calligraphy or written out words, Word Art for Microsoft Word, or anything else verbal. This can be useful for vocabulary words you are trying to teach, examples of foreign words (a French vocabulary table top, e.g.), words of a certain word family (the -at words, e.g.), or just a hodgepodge of words that sound good to you.
Learn how to découpage at About.com
This can be very versatile if you make multiple word collages to fit the size of your table and then put a sheet of glass overtop of that. Then you could even use a washable marker to write on the glass -- cross of words that were learned (great for goal-oriented learning), write out definitions, or silly comments / messages among family members.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Kindle in the Classroom
By Gloria Goldsmith
AVKO's materials are available on Kindle.
I have read several articles in the last few weeks about the use of Kindle for general classroom learning and how they may well change our educational establishments, both in public schools and schools of higher learning.
The possibilities for Colleges and Universities to adopt the use of Kindles initially are greater since technology usage is higher among college students and they are always looking for an inexpensive way to snag the required texts for classes. The cost for a textbook versus a Kindle download is about 25 to 32% cheaper for the student and the savings to the environment means less paper used and printing required, so less energy used. That seems positive.
Some school districts have already been calculating the savings in textbooks that is possible. Schools are waiting with bated breath for the price of the Kindle to lower enough (dramatically) that it would make the acquisition of a few thousand feasible for their school district.
Some of the newest models, Kindle DX, and Kindle 2 have been criticized as less classroom friendly, which seems odd (heads up, manufacturer), since school district purchases would be a boon to the bottom line sales numbers of this newer device and could be the very trend that could make them inexpensive enough to become a mundane back-to-school expenditure.
What are your thoughts of this newest trend?
Here are a couple of articles voicing some other opinions.
http://www.insidehighered.com/
There are several articles at this website, http://www.edukindle.com/
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Follow-up from Josiah (Featured student in To Teach a Dyslexic Video)
We recently heard from Josiah about his latest academic success. Josiah worked with Don McCabe at the AVKO reading clinic in Birch Run for a few weeks and was featured in the AVKO video "To Teach a Dyslexic." We are so proud of him! Here's his e-mail to Don.
Sincerely Josiah
Hello Mr. McCabe. This is Josiah Holland. I hope this E-mail finds you well, and I hope you still use this E-mail address. I would like to tell you that I have graduated from Harding University with a Bachelor’s Degree in General Studies. Also I would like to thank you for teaching me some of the basic reading and writing skills needed to complete my education; without them I probably would not have even been able to get into college. Hopefully we can stay in touch.
Sincerely Josiah
Saturday, May 9, 2009
New AVKO Materials: Engaging Language Kits!
AVKO is proud to announce that we have have introduced a new line of supplemental curriculum materials for language arts: Engaging Language Kits (by Brian McCabe). Each of these seven kits corresponds to one of the levels of Sequential Spelling to reinforce the word families learned in that level. Each kit has over 125 pages of activities for your students:
- Creative writing prompts
- Word games using the word families of the Sequential Spelling level
- Anagrams
- Word Searches
- Scrambled Words
- Missing Word Families
- Speech to Spelling Translation
- Dictation exercises
- Story writing
- Readings for Comprehension
- Helpful Appendix Items for Even More Activities and Prompts
Though these activities correspond to each of the levels of Sequential Spelling, one needn't be teaching Sequential Spelling to use these exercises with students. They will complement any language arts curriculum or just for fun! They ascend in level of difficulty with each volume (level of abstract thought, word families presented, etc.).
Each Engaging Language Kit costs only $12.95 and comes in a 3-ring binder for easy access to the worksheets. Use the e-coupon code "blog" to receive a 10% discount on your order.
Buy the Engaging Language Kit 1 now:
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Resources for All Your Spelling Needs
Resources for All Your Spelling Needs
| Pre-Packaged; Teacher Involved | Pre-Packaged; Limited Teacher Involvement | Specific Problem Areas | Completely Customized; Teacher Involved | |
| Sequential Spelling 1-7
| Individualized Spelling word lists on SpellingCity.com Use the lists as they are. | The Tricky Words
| Individualized Spelling word lists on SpellingCity.com Use the lists | |
| Sequential Spelling for Adults
| Become an | The I Before E Set | Become an AVKO member to access the spelling and reference materials necessary to create your own Sequential Spelling-like tests, includingThe Patterns of English Spelling. | |
| If it is to be, it is up to me to do it
| Sequential Spelling on DVD
| Speech to Spelling |
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Other Resources:
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The Benefits and Features of Sequential Spelling
AVKO's Sequential Spelling program is very effective and is very simple to use. No preparation required on the part of the homeschooling parent or teacher. The student doesn't have to do any copywork or busywork in order to get the benefits of the program -- but these may be used to reinforce or review the words or the lessons. This new graphic shows how the word families presented in Sequential Spelling build both vertically and horizontally. See how there are teachable moments embedded in the lessons -- contractions, tricky words, possessives, names, etc. See the cross-referencing to The Patterns of English Spelling (available for free with membership as an e-book) and important rules or spelling notes in the footnotes.
AVKO's Book of the Month for May
Each month, AVKO selects one of its materials to feature and discounts it by at least10%. Members receive even more discounts. This month, the special is on the Advanced Student Speller Pack, Sequential Spelling volumes 5-7.
Another month, another new special. This month, we are highlighting the advanced levels of Sequential Spelling, Volumes 5, 6, and 7. If you have an advanced speller or if you just want to stockpile your Sequential Spelling books until you are ready for them, take advantage of this offer from AVKO!
Another month, another new special. This month, we are highlighting the advanced levels of Sequential Spelling, Volumes 5, 6, and 7. If you have an advanced speller or if you just want to stockpile your Sequential Spelling books until you are ready for them, take advantage of this offer from AVKO!Monday, May 4, 2009
Workshop Recorings Now Available on CD!
These recordings of popular topics on which Don McCabe speaks are available for FREE with AVKO Membership or you may order them on audio CDs for $2.50 each. Free Shipping on Audio CDs!
Available Topics:
Available Topics:
- I Think My Child Might Be Dyslexic -- Does it Matter?
- Spelling -- Accentuate the Positive; Eliminate the Negative
- The Mechanics of English Spelling
- Phonics -- The Most Misunderstood Approach to Teaching Reading
- Create Your Own Spelling Program That Really Works
- You Don't Need a Master's Degree to Teach Your Kids -- Just a Degree of Caring
Saturday, May 2, 2009
AVKO Recommends These Books
Friday, May 1, 2009
Sorry for the delay in AVKO blog posts
Sorry for the delay in AVKO blog posts, but we are back up to date and have added the posts for the past week. Be sure that you didn't miss any exciting AVKO news, specials, or resources in the last weeks' posts.
Last Chance for the Book of the Month Special
Today is the last day to get your copy of Starting at Square One at a drastically reduced price. The special ends at midnight tonight (the special has been extended to end at midnight of May 1st!). If you need a language arts curriculum for your kindergartner or first grader (K-1), ESL, or older student who needs help with phonemic awareness and/or word attack skills, this is the book for you. As the alphabet is taught, your student will learn reading, spelling, handwriting, and keyboarding. The book uses completely decodable words as the letters of the alphabet are taught.
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