AVKO provides reference materials that should be available in any school library, such as:

• The Patterns of English Spelling, the only resource book that contains all the rimes (word families) and all the words within each rime.  It also has cross references to rimes that rhyme.

• The Teaching of Reading & Spelling: a Continuum from Kindergarten through College. . contains  suggested orders of presentation (curriculum) for the teaching of phonics, phonemic awareness, spelling, as well as techniques for teaching vocabulary, reading comprehension and studying.

• How to Develop Your Own Sequential Spelling Tests is a workshop highly recommended for those teachers who want to individualize the sequential spelling for their students, even those with dyslexia or specific learning disabilities. 

• If it is to be, it is up to us to help them is a set of lesson plans for an adult community education course to help train parents in the art of tutoring reading and spelling if their children need more one-to-one help than can possibly be given in a normal classroom. 

• If it is to be, it is up to me to do it is the parent-friendly spelling/reading book especially designed for the adult community education course in tutoring above.  Click on the title for a full explanation of how it works and a free download of the first seven lessons.

• Starting at Square One is the only curriculum ever devised to teach reading and spelling AS the students are learning the alphabet NOT after!
  
  There are no cute bunny rabbits or balloons so this set of books will not be a put-down for older students or adults who need help in either learning manuscript, cursive, or both.  They will also be learning reading and spelling skills as they practice their penmanship.
  
  It can also be used to teach computer keyboarding.
  
   

• Sequential Spelling 1-7 You can try out the first eight lessons.  It's the only method of teaching spelling that eliminates the Study-for-the-test-and- forget-by-Monday syndrome.  Each of the 7 levels has 180 daily tests of 21 words for a total of over 25,000 words!  
•  Individualized Keyboarding (Student)  is designed to help students improve their reading and spelling skills AS they learn the keyboard in a systematic manner much like Starting at Square One above.
• Word Families in Sentence Context, the only reading text ever devised to teach word families in the context of real sentences.  Although it uses drills to teach skills, adults find the sentences entertaining.  Because the sentences are written for adults, the beginning adult reader keeps his focus and learns decoding by onsets and rimes as well as by applying other skills in context of real sentences.
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