Do you want to learn a fast, fun effective approach to teaching Phonics? It’s time you came to the Dance – The Phonics Dance is a quick and easy way to teach phonics and increase the reading and writing skills of each and every student in your classroom. Meet all of your students’ different learning styles with this brain based approach to learning the sounds in the English language. The goal of this session is to provide phonemic and phonetic success for all primary students, regardless of their developmental level.

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.

See It. Say It. Dance It. Read It. Write It!

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

7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 Welcome to the Dance!

12:00 Lunch

2:30 Certificates of Completion

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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