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Spelling success
April 4th, 2008
Since I started homeschooling my son in second grade, I have tried a variety of spelling programs and methods on and off over the years but without much success. A few months ago, I found one that works and I would encourage anyone who is having difficulty with spelling to try it.
AVKO Educational Research Foundation, Audio, Visual, Kinesthetic, & Oral a multi-sensory approach.
For over a quarter of a century the AVKO Educational Research Foundation has been investigating
the nature of the English language and its orthography.
what it is about English that causes so many problems for so many students trying to learn to read and spell English.
what methods are used to teach reading and spelling that work or don’t work
For a summary of our research and a challenge to researchers worldwide, see our Research section.
Why am I giving free advertising to this group? Because after only two months of use, my 15 year old is learning to spell and neither one of us have been traumatized by the experience. He is finally learning to recognize spelling patterns that we would go over previously but never seem to stick. Previously spelling for us was trying a new curriculum or system for a few weeks, realizing that he is getting anything out of it, and then ignoring the subject until the next time I would panic that he doesn’t know how to spell. So imagine my relief that I’m now seeing some progress. The program isn’t expensive and you can download the first few lessons for free from the website.
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