Dates:   Tuesday 2nd, 9th & 16th February 2027
Time:     7.00 - 8.00 pm
Venue:  Online via Zoom

Target audience: Primary school teachers (Junior Infants – 2nd Class), SEN teachers, and literacy coordinators/instructional leaders

This practical 3-part series gives educators a clear, engaging routine for phoneme-grapheme mapping using Elkonin boxes and more classroom resources. Across three sessions, participants will move from foundational theory (the Simple View of Reading) into live classroom demonstrations, troubleshooting tricky spelling patterns like schwa, silent letters and trigraphs, and building the routine into a repeatable 5-minute daily practice.

By the end of the series, teachers will be able to:

• explain why phoneme-grapheme mapping supports stronger decoding and spelling than sound-it-out alone,
• confidently run an phoneme/grapheme mapping routine with their class, and
• embed mapping into daily instruction without adding prep time.

Bio of Presenter: Yvette Manns

Yvette Manns, M.Ed. is a nationally recognized language and literacy specialist, former classroom teacher, and educational consultant with almost two decades of research and applied practice in literacy. She is internationally recognized as the author of the Phonics Read-Alouds series which is used in over 200,000 classrooms internationally and the founder of National Schwa Day. Through her training initiatives, Yvette equips educators with data-driven, Science of Reading-aligned strategies for phonemic awareness, phonics, and language development in the classroom.