Don McCabe , Noted Author of To Teach a Dyslexic and The Patterns of English Spelling For more information about Don McCabe click this sentence. What phonemic awareness is and is not. Only after the word has been written will the participants be able to hear all the phonemes. The Difference between Phonics and Phonemics and Phonetics. That most criticism of the way phonics is currently being taught, has some truth in it.
Most phonic programs have serious flaws.
What most students never learn unless they're taught, including many of the gifted. 1. enable them to evaluate any spelling program, 2. construct their own sequential spelling program based upon their students' needs, 3. learn how to help students learn without having to study word lists and without having to copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy. They will learn to spell whichever word they select without once seeing the word, without studying the word, without writing it seven times. This is guaranteed. If Don McCabe cannot get the students you selected to do this, AVKO will refund the entire cost of the inservice.