Organize and Access English Sounds/Make Phonics Dynamic Using Picture Cues

Audience: primary teachers, special ed teachers and instructional assistants (parapros) K-12, Bilingual and ELL teachers and assistants K-12, support staff, parents

Professional Practice Standards (Washington State)

1.1 Demonstrating Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy


Phyllis Herzog at a PhonicsQ exhibit
in Pohnpei, Micronesia

1.2 Designing and/or Adapting Curriculum for Diverse Needs
1.3 Setting Instructional Goals
1.4 Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources
1.13 Using Questions and Discussion Techniques
1.14 Engaging All Students in Learning
1.15 Providing Feedback to Students
 
 

Course Description

This session will emphasize the importance of teaching written English as an alphabetic code. Teachers will learn basic phonics patterns and rules and be able to teach them through a phonics-based, sequential or literature-based reading program. This approach uses a picture as a cueing device to connect letters and sounds for decoding, encoding and pronunciation.


Course Objectives

As a result of participation:

  • each participant will become familiar with the repertoire of phonemes and graphemes in the English language
  • each participant will learn a variety of phonemic awareness activities using picture cues
  • each participant will become familiar with basic spelling patterns and rules
  • each participant will learn ways to use picture cues to enhance decoding in both phonics and literature-based reading programs
  • each participant will learn ways to use picture cues to enhance pronunciation
A Teacher Says Thanks!
"Thank you for inviting me to visit you and your students yesterday. I am very excited about what I saw! The combination of the PhonicsQ program and your excellent teaching style is powerful and obviously produces phenomenal results. It's the best phonics program I have ever seen. I hope to use it in my own teaching. Thanks so much!"

Michele Domash, Special Ed Resource Room Teacher, Seattle, Washington