The Phonetic Program that Teaches Reading for Dyslexia, ELL/ESL Students and Those with Learning Differences. Everyone has FUN Learning to Read with Silent Elephant “e”®
This is what you’ve been looking for - a program that works for ALL learners!
A comprehensive phonemic awareness and phonics reading program that teaches reading, writing and spelling together enabling success for EVERYONE.
The ONLY program you’ll need for preschoolers to adults
Researched based, data driven, proven results
Comprehensive language-based strategies
Extensive, kinesthetic phonemic awareness foundation
Logical sequence building one phonics skill upon another
Easy to teach using step by step “Cookbook Directions”
Any setting - classroom to kitchen - smiles all around.
Every lesson engages all parts of the brain ensuring retention
Every lesson engages the whole body through multi-sensory activities
Every lesson teaches children the way they love to learn with memorable, fun activities
11 years of data
Begin instruction with twenty minutes per day.
With a minimum of 1.5 hours per week of instruction, students typically advance one grade level in their first two months in the program and reach their chronological grade level within 4 months
Proven - Successful in exiting students from Special Education
Easily accessible lifetime support
Dyslexic and struggling readers are drawn in with lively, step-by-step phonemic awareness and phonics lessons - the vital learning blocks for every reader.
Like no other program, Silent Elephant “e” ® stimulates under-activated parts of the dyslexic reader’s brain using pictures, games, activities and reflection.
It is the only curriculum needed to guide an ELL/ESL, a dyslexic reader or anyone struggling with learning differences to becoming a fluent, comprehending reader.
The program is fun and easy for them and for YOU. You will feel confident and sure of the success of your dyslexic and struggling readers.
The full program has over 80 complete lesson plans with teacher resources and ongoing assessment tools designed for classroom teachers, tutors and homeschoolers alike.
Upon completion of Level 3, Part 14, ALL students will be skilled readers with the tools to read any word of any genre.
Our data tells the story.
LET’S LOOK AT 12 YEARS OF RESULTS! THEY ARE AMAZING!
Over the last 12 years, on average, dyslexic and struggling students have:
Advanced 1 grade level for every 2.8 months of instruction (Think of this: my students are not taking a school year to advance 1 grade level - they’re advancing multiple grade levels in 1 year.)
Advanced to their age appropriate grade level in 9.9 months (some in as little as 2.5 months)
Advanced 4 grade levels with 6 months of instruction
Mastered Part 1, Phonemic Awareness within 3 months
This data is based on an average of 1.5 - 2 hours of instruction per week.
In the last 12 years, 11 of my students have successfully exited special education.
Also, I have been able to support parents and teachers in their decision to refrain from placing a child in special education because the student was being tutored using Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®.
A PRECIOUS STORY
After just five one-half hour tutoring sessions with a ten-year old girl using Phonetic Reading with Silent Elephant “e”®, Part 1 Phonemic Awareness, we had reached Lesson 4D. She softly said to me, “ I think I have figured out what you are trying to teach me.”
“What have you figured out?” I asked encouragingly with much anticipation.
“I have figured out that words have sounds in them,” she hesitatingly began. I smiled at her reassuringly. “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! I could not have explained it better! You are awesome! You are brilliant!”
Her shy smile and twinkling eyes said it all—she was so proud of herself! Doors were opening for her.
“I think I am going to be able to learn to read now,” she quietly, yet strongly proclaimed.
Tears fill my eyes as I write this. The confusion and struggle she must have experienced all those years of trying to read—trying to make sense of printed letters and not hearing individual sounds within words must have been exasperating and discouraging.
My tears are not just tears of compassion, but also tears of joy! I know I can teach her and guide her to become a strong, independent reader. I can impart to her the joy and love of reading using Silent Elephant “e”®!
November 2015