Give Your Child A Head Start In Reading, Writing And Spelling!

May 4, 2010 - PRLog -- Zoo-phonics has been launched in Australia with it's head office in Brisbane, Australia.

Zoo-phonics is a method developed to make children strong readers and spellers using a “phono” (hearing), “oral” (speaking), “visual” (seeing), “kinaesthetic” (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.

The Zoo-phonics Program Zoo-phonics was born in the classroom of Georgene "Gigi" Bradshaw in 1983. Gigi began using kinaesthetic techniques tied to phonics to teach reading and spelling to her students. Her unique and highly successful approach quickly caught on with other teachers, including her sister Charlene "Char" Wrighton.

Gigi and Char have teamed with illustrator Irene Clark and have taken Gigi's original techniques and made them the "Essences" and foundation for the Zoo-phonics Program, developing a comprehensive, balanced, literature-based method for teaching reading and spelling.

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

What makes Zoo-phonics different?

In Zoo-phonics, we take something that is very abstract (reading) and through music, stories, puppets and games, turn it into something that is concrete and understandable to young children.

Zoo-phonics:

a) Uses 26 animals to teach letter shapes and sounds
b) Teaches the lower case letters before introducing capitals
c) Teaches letter sounds before letter names
d) Teaches a body movement, or "signal," in association with each Animal/letter of the alphabet; these "Signals" aid memory and bring fun into the classroom
e) Treats the alphabet as a whole and goes from "a-z"
f) Teaches short vowels before long vowels
g) Uses "word family" patterns to teach reading and spelling, because children are "naturals" at finding and remembering patterns

For more information on the program, visit our website at http://www.zoophonics.com.au , email us at info@zoo-phonics.com.au or call us on 1300 155 587

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Zoo-phonics is a method developed to make children strong readers and spellers using a “phono” (hearing), “oral” (speaking), “visual” (seeing), “kinaesthetic” (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.