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The AVKO spelling programme was written by a dyslexic for dyslexics and those who have had limited success with other spelling programmes. AVKO stands for Auditory, visual, kinaesthetic and oral.

Backed by the AVKO research foundation its aims are to:

* Determine what makes the learning of reading and spelling so difficult for some and so easy for others.

* Determine what it is about our language that good readers learn without being taught that poor readers don't.

* Determine whether or not that which poor readers don't learn is ever systematically taught and if it isn't, if it can be.

* Devise techniques and materials to enable teachers (or parents) to systematically teach poor readers and/or poor spellers that which schools presently are not teaching.

* Widely disseminate its discoveries of techniques and materials that enable dyslexics to learn to read and to spell

In the AVKO programme, words are sequenced vertically during a single lesson as in:
in pin sin spin kin skin win twin

Words are sequenced horizontally during a five day week as in:
Lesson 1 - pin; Lesson 2 - pins; Lesson 3 - pinned; Lesson 4 - pinnnig

Students correct their own spellings immediately after each word is given so they are more likely to remember them.

IN THIS LEVEL:
Some of the patterns learned in Sequential Spelling 7 include those patterns that tend to defy phonics: foreign and other "hard" words

Level: Depends on the child

Suitability: Suitable for home or school