How does Zoo-phonics differ from the traditional method of teaching phonics?
Zoo-phonics teaches lowercase letters and sounds first. When these have been learned, uppercase letters and letter names are introduced. The alphabet is taught as a whole and in sequence. Zoo-phonics does not believe in teaching one letter per week. It teaches the alphabet from “a-z.” To make it fun, the children sing and move to the Zoo-phonics alphabet song entitled, “Come Meet us at the Zoo” (from the Zoo-Music Collection On CD). A Body Signal is taught from “a-z” in association with each Animal. Not only is this beneficial to a young child’s physical development, but it aids memory (for “When the body moves, the brain remembers”), and it’s fun! Love Letters “I work as a Kindergarten Teacher for the Centralia School District which just adopted Zoo-phonics as an intervention system. In order to familiarize myself with the program, I started introducing the letter sound cards to my 18-month-old son. (He started to notice letters when he was 12 months.) I just used the cards with him a
