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Today I want to share Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”® in depth so that you really KNOW what you are getting when you choose Silent Elephant “e”® as your reading, writing and spelling curriculum . 😊

Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®  is your COMPLETE reading, writing AND spelling curriculum pre-school through high school skills.

It’s your WHOLE curriculum, 14 years of reading, writing AND spelling skills – preschool through high school.

(If you prefer, click here to explore Silent Elephant “e”® or zip over and explore each part of Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e” here  Afterpay is available. You can also purchase on Amazon here, or search Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”. ) 

With Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®  as your reading, writing and spelling curriculum you’ll have everything all your kids need preschool through high school skills, especially if they have learning differences like dyslexia. That’s all 14 years of curriculum.

With Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®  you can relax and breathe deep knowing you won’t have to think about which reading, writing or spelling curriculum to use ever again.

Let’s explore it.
 

Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”® Part 1 is Phonemic Awareness which is the foundation of ALL reading, writing and spelling success.

Without a solid base of phonemic awareness, your child will struggle with all three, reading, writing and spelling, for the rest of their life. Silent Elephant “e”®’s phonemic awareness ensures that your child will have a solid understanding of how language works and they will be ready for phonics and to read, write and spell

Phonics concepts begin in Part 3 Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®. Every phonics concept begins with an imaginative creative activity that is the foundation of that concept for the rest of Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®, and their life. These activities include puppetry, song, art, acting, drawing, color, symbols, writing, using their 5 senses in their learning and many other activities.

Each of these creative activities activates all parts of their brain which is important for every one of your children as they’re learning to read, write and spell, but especially important for your dyslexics or other learning difference children.
 

Silent Elephant “e”® also has 44 colored educational posters that are an integral part of each phonics concept. The poster activities are one of the ways that Silent Elephant “e”® ensures each phonics concept is processed in all parts of their brain. This is especially important for your dyslexic child, and is a powerful tool for every one of your children. When they have drawn the poster that explains the phonics concept, their brain will pull up that image for them when they come up to an unknown word that has that phonics concept.
 

There are 4 other components that we have created to support you as your children learn to read, write and spell with Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®. 

1. Extra added fun is our picture book My Awesome Grandma. It is a book that leaves their imagination wondering. :) It introduces consonant digraphs and goes with Parts 4-14.

2. Just for you, we recorded over 100 Instructional Videos that take you lesson by lesson through all of Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®. If you’re not sure how to teach a lesson, you have the video at your fingertips.

3. Knowing you might want added support, we offer a 9 hour on-line Personal Training - our Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”® class for homeschool parents, tutors and teachers is very helpful.  You’ll notice the price goes down depending on how many people attend the class.

4. Our blog silentelephante.com/blog has way over 100 posts to support you as you teach your children.  

Please keep this in mind - one of the most important things for us is for you to know that with Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®  you will ALWAYS have OUR support to answer all your questions about Silent Elephant “e”®, about teaching reading, about teaching in general and about teaching dyslexics and other learning differences.

Your children’s success is very importance to us.
You, and your children, having fun as they learn to read, write and spell is also very important to us. 

Email us at silentelephante@gmail.com or nina.silentelephante@gmail.com with your questions.

Not JUST a Picture Book - MY AWESOME GRANDMA

MY AWESOME GRANDMA

In my last blog post, I shared the educational reasons and “power” of my Silent Elephant “e” posters. 

I want to let you know that included with the purchase of Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”’s posters is My Awesome Grandma picture book. 

Just like my posters, My Awesome Grandma is not “just a pretty face”! I wrote it to engage children in a fun, educational, magical story promoting instant recall of the magic of consonant digraphs. 

I had an incredible time creating this story and collaborating with Brandin Hurley, the illustrator, determining exactly what the book should look like page by page.  

Just as I did with my Silent Elephant “e” posters, I wrote My Awesome Grandma to make the vague concept of consonant digraphs “tangible”. It can be confusing when 2 or 3 letters are combined and given a sound that is completely different from any of the individual letter sounds children learn in preschool and Kindergarten. Now, a child must disassociate their original learning of those letters’ individual sounds and give these new “sets” of letters their own unique sounds.  

As I began to ponder activities to help my students get a solid grasp of consonant digraphs, I kept falling back on my own love of the “magic” of these letters that could join together and produce totally different sounds. 

This made me smile. As I pondered further, the story of My Awesome Grandma emerged. 

Through this “magical” story and the activities I created to go with it, my students develop a firm knowledge that when you put two or three particular consonants together to form a consonant digraph, they magically make a new sound—their own unique sound.  Yes, consonant digraphs are MAGICAL!  

And so is Grandma! 

Brightly painted whimsical drawings of Grandma’s childhood accomplishments and her dream of becoming a dancer with the Rockettes draw children into this amusing story. 

Unfortunately, Grandma wasn’t tall enough to be a Rockette, and as this reality set in, she took it upon herself to do the only thing logical, to study magic with the hopes that one day she would be able to magically make herself taller. 

In the meantime, Grandma became a teacher and unexpectedly found her magic skills were especially useful in her classroom. (Wouldn’t they be!!) 

Then one fateful day, while performing magic during after school hours to prevent her students’ disappointment in the outcomes of some of their science experiments, her grandson, Andrew, unexpectedly discovers that Grandma can actually change one animal into another! 

At first Andrew is frightened, but soon his imagination goes wild as he “sees” ALL of the possibilities of Grandma’s magical skills! He makes a request of Grandma - to make him the tallest boy in the world, which has exciting and startling outcomes! 

As I mentioned in my post about my posters, My Awesome Grandma and the activities written for it activate all parts of the brain making it easier for children to develop automatic recall of all consonant digraphs. 

Children enthusiastically participate in the follow-up activities—animal mask making, play-acting using a magic hat, a magic wand, the animal masks and orange, alphabet letters that magically change their individual consonant sounds into consonant digraph sounds. The playfulness of these activities and the happiness experienced by children promote immediate recall and ensures long-term retention of the story and consonant digraphs. 

With the use of the story and activities around the story, children relax and enjoy the “magic” of something becoming something different. They let their imagination play and they let consonant digraphs “make sense” in the process.

For more information about My Awesome Grandma, feel free to contact us. You can purchase My Awesome Grandma separately. Click here for the store.

Linda Katherine Smith-Jones                            Nina Henson