8:30-9:00 Registration, light refreshments provided

9:00-3:30 Workshop, lunch included

Course Description: See the Sound - Visual Phonics is a system of 46 unique hand cues and symbols that represent the sounds of English without the ambiguity of English orthography. Included are the sounds commonly referred to as vowels, consonants, diphthongs and digraphs. It is somewhat of a simplified, visual, kinesthetic version of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).  In English there is not a consistent one-to-one correspondence between the letters in a word and the sounds those letters supposedly represent. Many beginning readers have no real problem with these ambiguities, but for others the "untrustworthiness" of English spelling becomes a lifelong handicap. It's too confusing for them and they simply never learn to decode well. They spend years in "remedial work" and never get the chance to read really deep or interesting text; many get frustrated and bored and end up giving up on reading entirely. See the Sound - Visual Phonics has a way to break that cycle. Each student is taught a hand cue for each of the 46 sounds in English. Each hand cue is associated in some way with the production of the particular sound.

Students who will Benefit: Preschool, Kindergarten & First Grade students; Students that read below grade level in regular education settings, or in special service programs; Children in early education programs, also “at risk readers”; Special education students and students with disabilities; Deaf and Hard of Hearing students (DHH), students with hearing loss at all levels; English Language Learners (ELL), students learning English as a second language.

Fee: Free to member districts in Region 6 & 8 who purchase special education director services, $100 for non-member districts

CEUs: 6.0 CEUs