Zoo-phonics Teaches Kids to Read, Spell and Write

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Zoo-phonics meets and exceeds state standards!

Teach your students the alphabet in TWO WEEKS! Faster than you ever expected your students will be reading, spelling and writing!

 

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The Zoo-phonics Language Arts Program is a kinesthetic, multi-modal approach to learning all aspects of language arts, including vocabulary development and articulation, based on phonics and phonemic awareness.

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.

Zoo-phonics is a method developed to make children strong readers and spellers using a “phono” (hearing), “oral” (speaking), “visual” (seeing), “kinesthetic” (moving), and tactile (touching)—whole brain approach. Students actually learn the sounds of the alphabet and advanced phonemic concepts through an easily understood, concrete method of presentation.

Zoo-phonics uses animals drawn in the shapes of the letters for ease in memory. A related body movement is given for each letter. This concrete approach cements the sounds to the shapes of the letters. Lowercase letters and their sounds are taught first (needed 95% of the time in text), capital letters and letter names are taught later.

Zoo-phonics also provides a springboard for all other academia such as math, art, music, cooking/nutrition, social studies, science, grooming, physical education and sensory/drama.

Every aspect of the program has been field-tested and found to be effective. Educational research repeatedly supports the focus of phonics in early reading programs, as well as the educational benefits of pictorial mnemonics and kinesthetic approaches to learning that are unique to Zoo-phonics.

Currently Zoo-phonics is used throughout the United States and internationally as a highly effective language arts program.

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Administrators and teachers know what works!
“Zoo-phonics has made a phenomenal impact on the primary reading program in my school district over the past 5 years! No matter what the socio-economic background of the students, I see smiling children who are excited about learning to read and eager to “zoo” their letters and sounds for me wherever I go. With Zoo-phonics, children quickly learn the letter-sound basics and move on to segmenting and blending. Teachers love the program and marvel at their students’ rapid progress. Even veteran teachers tell me that they have never used a program that gets solid results so quickly and easily! It is one of the best comprehensive, foundational programs on the market today!”

—Dr. Karen Tankersley, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services Retired, Dysart Unified School District and Educational Author, Phoenix, AZ

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Zoo-phonics WILL REACH every child!

Zoo-phonics will reach every child including...

• Toddlers
• Headstart
• Preschool
• Kindergarten
• First Grade
• English language Learners
• Special Education
(all grades)

The problem with the alphabet and learning how to read and spell is that it is too abstract. So we made it concrete...

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The ESSENCES of Zoo-phonics

Zoo-phonics is an effective and proven methodology!

• The Animal Alphabet helps children remember the shapes and sounds of the letters.
• Letter sounds are taught before letter names.
• Lowercase letters are taught before capital letters.
• The Body Movement for each Animal Letter helps “cement” the phonemic information into memory.
• The alphabet is taught sequentially, and as a whole entity, “a - z.” The alphabet is not fragmented.
• Short vowels are taught before long vowels.
• Phonemic patterns (at, bat, fat, sat, etc.) are taught first, rather than random word lists (of, it, then, was, etc.)

Click below to read about each of the Zoo-phonics Essences in detail...

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How Zoo-phonics was DEVELOPED

Zoo-phonics was developed by two experienced teachers in answer to the needs of their students!

The developers of Zoo-phonics, with its accent on reinforcement through the multi-modal approach, are convinced that this system offers an outstanding alternative to past and present methods of teaching reading and spelling. It ties in easily with any reading series, literature and language arts program that a school may use. Current research supports the Zoo-phonics Program...

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Zoo-phonics will close your classroom's GENDER GAP

Research finds that boys are slipping behind girls on almost all academic milestones!

The latest NAEP writing assessments (2007) show boys scoring an average 20 points lower than girls. For those in low economic areas or who are special education students, the chasm is even larger. The results reveal how crucial the early years of school are in laying the foundation to allay this discrepancy...

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Zoo-phonics will accelerate your TALENTED and GIFTED students

Zoo-phonics provides a unique and challenging curriculum for talented and gifted students!

Talented and gifted students come to our classrooms with brains, minds and hearts hungry for learning. Too often, these students are left to their own devices or are given busy work. Delisle and Berger state, “A young, curious student may easily become ‘turned off’ if the educational environment is not stimulating… approaches are inappropriate…assignments are consistently too difficult or too easy.”...

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Zoo-phonics and children with SPECIAL NEEDS

Let Zoo-phonics assist your special needs students!

Besides learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD and dyslexia, children who, having been diagnosed with autism (including Asperger’s Syndrome), apraxia, cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, etc., have quickly learned the alphabet, and have been able to learn to read, spell and write through the Zoo-phonics methodology. Children (and their parents) quickly see their own progress, and self-image and confidence grows. Children have been successfully mainstreamed or included because of the efficiency of this program...

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Zoo-phonics and ELL children

Give your English Language Learners fun, playful, effective instruction!

Zoo-phonics supports ELL's (English Language Learners) by providing instruction and interaction while learning English. It's visual, auditory, aural and kinesthetic approach supports the ELL's need to use their eyes, ears, mouths, and bodies to learn how to speak, read, spell, and write. Zoo-phonics provides explicit instruction in the structure of English, while still teaching in a creative and kinesthetic way...

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Current RESEARCH supports Zoo-phonics

You will see incredible results...independent research proves it!

Every aspect of the Zoo-phonics Program has been field-tested and found to be effective. Educational research repeatedly supports the focus of phonics in early reading programs, as well as the educational benefits of pictorial mnemonics and kinesthetic approaches to learning that are unique to Zoo-phonics...

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Zoo-phonics is based on Creating BRAIN-EFFICIENT Curriculum

An analysis of the changes necessary to create a methodology and curriculum that enhances student achievement in reading and spelling

By Charlene A. Wrighton, 1995

The hottest educational issue of the past 10 years has NOT been whole language vs. phonics. It runs much deeper than that, primarily because whole language and phonics can be taught concurrently, if allowed. What, then, is the disparity that has widened the chasm within the educational system? In order to fully understand, we must analyze the issues carefully...

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