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.”
- With Zoo-phonics®, you can easily extend each concept in the lessons, which will lead students to more detail and depth in their reading, writing and critical thinking skills. Zoo-phonics® will not only accelerate your gifted learners, but can reverse patterns of underachieving behavior that is too prevalently seen in our classrooms, especially as students age.
- Zoo-phonics® makes it easy for you to reach all these precocious students by providing challenging curriculum that stimulates their interests. Parents will be thrilled with their children’s progress. Administration will be thrilled by end-of-year results.
Ever since, I have considered Zoo-phonics to be the greatest tool in my teacher’s tool box!
Our private elementary school located in Silicon Valley was about a 20 minute drive from a large country club community that boasted an excellent, well-funded neighborhood public school. Over a period of a few years, we noticed a trend: many families from the country club area utilized our Pre-school and Kindergarten, and then would transfer to their neighborhood school for 1st grade. One day I shared our observation with a parent with whom I felt comfortable, gently inquiring why this might be so. She immediately responded, ‘Oh, we talk about you out there! You see, our local school runs a developmental Kindergarten program, but when kids arrive in 1st grade they seem to be expected to know how to read. Parents feel like no one there really teaches them how to do it. The word spread between parents and we’ve learned that we can come to you, because you know how to teach children how to read!’ I am so thankful to have had a principal who equipped the Pre-school through 1st Grade teachers with the Zoo-phonics program! Ever since, I have considered Zoo-phonics to be the greatest tool in my teacher’s tool box!
Kelly Witmer, retired elementary school teacher, Achiever Christian School
May 31, 2018
