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“The workshop
met my expectations and above! This was the first phonics program
I’ve liked.”
—Teacher from
Atlanta, GA
"I had these
results: 1 student was reading at a 1.9 level, 2 students were
reading at a 1.6 level, 3 students finally understood letters
= sounds = words, and tested 1.0, and 2 students were getting
to associate letters = sounds and sounds = words. These were
Kindergarten students and did better than some other students
in K-2 district wide testing! I am using three reading “programs”
to teach reading. Yours is the best and most productive program
I have used in my 31 years in teaching K-12th graders. I cannot
say how well your program helps my students learn to read. I
recommend it to all teachers in my district!”
—Brian Koharian,
Teacher, Fort Yukon Elementary, Fort Yukon, AK
A Zoo-phonics Workshop will enable you to effectively teach
language arts--based on phonics, taught with kinesthetics and
mnemonics. The principle of Zoo-phonics maximizes understanding,memory,
utilization and transference to all areas of the reading, spelling
and writing process in a playful and concrete manner.
Our Comprehensive One-Day
Training:
- Teaches the Animal Alphabet
that "cements" sounds and shapes of the alphabet into
memory through a Body Movement, allowing the children to utilize
the alphabet immediately.
- Sequentially and developmentally
teaches through the educational hierarchy: listening, speaking,
reading and writing.
- Presents many playful phonemic
awareness activities.
- Introduces many ideas to help
you teach phonics, sound blending, reading, spelling, writing
and critical thinking skills through use of both decodable books
and literature.
- Places heavy emphasis on the
alphabet, CVC words, blends and digraphs, with a short introduction
to the more advanced phonemic concepts.
- Demonstrates how to reach all
of your students (special needs, ELL, gifted, etc.).
A Two-Day
Training reviews and extends a One-Day Training:
- By providing a question and
answer forum on all aspects of language arts
- By instructing your teachers
how to teach advanced phonemic concepts playfully and brain efficiently,
for example: 1. long vowels
that stand alone in the syllable or word (me, go, remember);
2. "e" on the end of the
word that gives the vowel its long sound (made, kite, hole);
3. two-vowel phonemes (rain, read,
pie) and diphthongs (toy, boil, buoyant); 4. silent letters (gnome, comb, write);
5. soft sounds (cent, gentle, cyclone)
- By giving workshop participants
plenty of practice with the phonetic concepts found above, tying
it directly into reading, spelling, writing and literature
- By discussing how and when to
edit student writing and how to maximize student performance
and creativity in the reading and writing domains
- By helping teachers and administrators
to develop a continuity in the reading and writing curriculum
throughout the grades
- By discussing the importance
of assessments and showing you how to be a diagnostic and prescriptive
teacher
- By actively involving participants
in all aspects of the Zoo-phonics Language Arts Program, including
how to use the Zoo-phonics Readers, Sound Flash Cards, games
and other support materials, tying them into the classroom curriculum
 Ask
about "Friends Train Free"!
Advanced
Part II and "Make and Take" workshops available!
Come to a Zoo-Phonics workshop and go home with all the fun
activities and games that you learned about and played with in
the Part I Workshop. Make crafts activities for the Animals.
Stuff plastic eggs with letters or words; make CVC Flip Books;
make CVC Rubber Band Stretchers, Pellon Animal Hand Puppets;
a - b - c or CVC beach balls... And much, much more!
Let us deliver a private workshop
for your group!
College credit available!
For more information, call
Charmaine Atkins at 800-622-8104
or e-mail: charmaine@zoo-phonics.com
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