As a Silent Elephant “e”® tutor, we truly make a difference, whether our student is 6 years old, 14, or 30, their lives will be forever different.
Here’s a heart-warming example of one of our tutors and her 10-year-old student.
After just five one-half hour tutoring sessions they had reached Lesson 4D in Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®, Part 1 Phonemic Awareness.
The shy young girl looked at her tutor and softly said, “I think I have figured out what you are trying to teach me.”
“What have you figured out?” her tutor softly asked.
“I have figured out that words have sounds in them,” she hesitatingly began. “I can hear sounds in words now. I see the different colors on the squares, and I have figured out that the different colors mean different sounds. When I touch the squares one at a time, I can hear one sound at a time in my head. I think that is what you are trying to teach me.”
“That is exactly what I have been teaching you! You explained it so clearly. I could not have done any better.”
Her shy smile and twinkling eyes said it all—she was so proud of herself! Doors were opening for her; she was hearing the sounds in words. She was beginning to have phonemic awareness, the foundation of all reading, writing, and spelling.
“I think I am going to be able to learn to read now,” she quietly proclaimed.
Her tutor sat quietly with her and together they felt the power of that moment. She knew she was going to be able to read. The confusion and struggle she had experienced for years trying to read, trying to make sense of printed letters and not hearing individual sounds, was beginning to slip away behind her.
She was going to be able to read and she felt it.
With Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®, the joy and love of reading and writing is open to her for the rest of her life!
As a Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”® tutor, you are a part of their joy and their success. They will never forget you.
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