AVKO Membership (Review)

AVKO Educational Research Foundation is a non profit organization that specializes in helping dyslexics learn to read, write, spell, as well as type.

AVKO offers a yearly membership for exclusive "members only" downloadable e-books and materials for homeschooling. Included in a basic AVKO membership is the following:

• Discounts on AVKO printed materials
• Hundreds of dollars worth of FREE e-books (PDF)
  • The Patterns of English Spelling (All 10 Volumes) with Word Families in Sentence Context
  • To Teach a Dyslexic
  • Starting at Square One
  • The Teaching of Reading & Spelling: a Continuum from Kindergarten through College.
  • The Reading Teacher's List of Over 5,500 Basic Spelling Words
• Access to the Member Only section
• AVKO Newsletter with freebies, discounts, resources, and promotions
• Access to Don McCabe's most popular workshop recordings in MP3 format.
• Supplemental Curriculum Materials including word games, worksheets, activities, and more!
• Access to Pretests and Placement Tests
• Access to the Answer Keys for the Unscramblers and Family Reunion exercises of the Engaging Language Kits

A basic one year membership to AVKO is $25.00.

There are so many resources included in this membership, especially if you have a child that is struggling in reading, writing, or spelling, or if you are teaching a child with dyslexia. The site can be a little overwhelming at first. There is a great amount of information to be found in these materials and useful worksheets for the price of the membership. You may have heard of Sequential Spelling. This is the company that makes that spelling curriculum. Although you do not need to own Sequential Spelling to benefit from an AVKO membership, there are plenty of materials included in this membership to supplement this particular spelling program. If you decide that an AVKO membership is right for you, I would advise you to read through any material before handing over to your child, as you would do with any other kind of worksheet.

To learn more about an AVKO Membership, please visit their website. To read what my fellow crewmates have to say about an AVKO Membership, please visit the TOS Crew Page for AVKO.

*The author’s review and opinion is entirely her own. This product was provided to the author for free as a member of the 2009-2010 The Old Schoolhouse Magazine Homeschool Crew. No further compensation was received.*