The Zoo-phonics® Multisensory Language Arts Program is a kinesthetic, multi-modal approach to learning all aspects of language arts.
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.
This information was taken from the Zoo-phonics website: www.zoo-phonics.com
Each letter sound is paired with an animal name, a picture, and a motion
Teach the SOUNDS ONLY before the NAME of the letter
The most important thing to remember when teaching zoo-phonics is that we teach letter sound FIRST. We do not teach the NAME of the letter until the sounds are mastered. The reason for this is that reading requires only sounds. A child can read without ever knowing the letter names. Letter names are needed only for the purpose of spelling.
Teach LOWERCASE before UPPERCASE
The second thing to remember is that we teach lowercase letters before uppercase. This is because the majority of text that we see is in lowercase letters.
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.
This information was taken from the Zoo-phonics website: www.zoo-phonics.com
Each letter sound is paired with an animal name, a picture, and a motion
Teach the SOUNDS ONLY before the NAME of the letter
The most important thing to remember when teaching zoo-phonics is that we teach letter sound FIRST. We do not teach the NAME of the letter until the sounds are mastered. The reason for this is that reading requires only sounds. A child can read without ever knowing the letter names. Letter names are needed only for the purpose of spelling.
Teach LOWERCASE before UPPERCASE
The second thing to remember is that we teach lowercase letters before uppercase. This is because the majority of text that we see is in lowercase letters.