This seminar will motivate you and your students to work smarter not harder, all in just fifteen minutes a day. The Phonics Dance offers learning through cost free strategies that incorporate rhyme, movement and chant. Building on phonemic awareness, students become confident , successful writers. In the process they develop strong decoding skills through the use of "hunking and chunking" to build poise and fluency in reading.

7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 Welcome to the Dance!

12:00 Snack

12:30 Afternoon session

2:00 Certificates of Completion

Workshop focus is to present a phonics program based on whole brain learning. Incorporating writing, reading, and vocabulary skills.

Participants will:

*Learn an effective way to incorporate phonics instruction across the language arts curriculum

*Explore ideas for helping children use the classroom word wall to teach and reinforce Language Arts concepts

*Discover a quick, and effective way to make word work fun!

*Be able to enhance decoding and encoding strategies.

Website: PhonicsDance.com

Virginia Dowd, educator, consultant and author is known for her dynamic and motivating presentations. A recipient of the Martha Holden Jennings Master Teacher award in Ohio, Virginia has developed The Phonics Dance!™, a phenomenal program that teaches phonics combining fast-paced movement with chants and rhymes. Children quickly begin to incorporate this knowledge into their reading and writing. Her method integrates well with any style of teaching language arts. Virginia's teaching experience combined with her current work in her classroom, keeps Virginia in close touch with the realities of teaching today's children.

Email: workshops@phonicsdance.com
Website: phonicsdance.com
Location: 403 Kennison Avenue, New Carlisle, OH, United States
Phone: 937-679-5263
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Twitter: @Phonics_Dance