ESL / ELL Teacher & Student Endorsements

"Thank you so much for the materials. If you ever update or add anything to PhonicsQ, I would love to know. I saw you at the CABE conference in San Jose in February 2002. I teach a 4th/5th class of 100 percent English language learners. We use Open Court, but I feel that the phonics program and graphics are quite uninteresting. My students loved using PhonicsQ, and kept asking for it. Thanks!
Marcia Wright
Monterey, California
July, 2002
"I have been using PhonicsQ with my ESL students ever since my principal bought it. I like the size of the cards and the posters are great. I have them on the board space in front of our desks. Our school works with Phonographics and the charts work together with those lessons…"
Keni O’Francia
Seattle School District
Feburary 2000
"Your suggestions really helped me. I had to share an explicit phonics lesson with my Thursday night class last week and in part of it I used PhonicsQ. Everyone, including the professor wrote down your website. The PhonicsQ has been working great! I had my students glue the vowel combinations chart in their word notebooks. As I introduce the cues they highlight them. The advice about continually going back over the ones that have been introduced was very helpful. I think that was what I needed to understand. I was getting too worried about "mastery". It seems much more natural now that the cues are being continually integrated- just like your example about spelling the word "stain". My students are using them while they're reading and spelling."
Lise Narath
El Cerrito, CA
March 2002
"PhonicsQ is the ultimate tool in the classroom for pronunciation. Adult students of all levels enjoy starting each class with the "sounds" of letters, vowels and blends. Thank you. It is an invaluable tool for me."
Carole Smith, ESL Teacher
Lewis Adult Education Center
Santa Rosa, California
August 1, 2003