Dynamic
author Phyllis Herzog is a former Seattle School
District special education teacher who now trains
teachers all over the world how to use her well-regarded
visual cueing system PhonicsQ
to help students improve
their reading and spelling skills.
| Her
experiences as a teacher for 25 years in
self-contained and resource room classes
in both public and private schools and as
an individual tutor for children and adults
were the catalyst for the development of
PhonicsQ. |

5th Grade Learning Resource Room |
The program
was developed in a Seattle School District K-5
Resource Room over three years with a culturally
diverse group of special education students
and ELL students.
Herzog
received her B.S. and M.S. in Special Education
at the University of Michigan and Hunter College
respectively, and continued her education with
Slingerland training, ELL courses and a practicum
in the ELL program of the University of California
at Berkeley.
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Ruth
Winter, illustrator of PhonicsQ, currently teaches
art K-5 and recently completed her Master of
Education with an ELL emphasis.
She studied art,
languages and education at the University of
Oslo, Norway and the University of Washington
prior to receiving her B.A. in Art Education.
Winter has taught high school art, reading and
writing and formerly operated a school publishing
center where she published over 2,000 books
written by elementary school children.