Phonics Seminar

Realizing that many home educators wanted a practical "hands on" boost to quickly prepare for teaching, Bonnie Dettmer created a one-day seminar entitled the Phonics Seminar. This seminar was taught many times around the nation, and was attended by hundreds of parents and professional teachers. The format of the Phonics Seminar is a series of five CDs, which were recorded from a live presentation, including the class interaction. The notes supplied are copies of the actual overhead slides used for that presentation. Space is allotted on each page for notes to be taken. This Seminar can be a great boost for preparedness and confidence to use any phonics method, particularly Phonics for Reading and Spelling. Content includes why our language is the way it is and how children think in learning to read. The listener has the ability to work through the exercises with the presentation to learn the phonics which may never have been taught.Whether the method to be used is Phonics for Reading a