Hello!
I’m Pamela, an Intervention Specialist with a master’s degree in elementary reading and experience in regular and special education. I love seeing the excitement on students’ faces as they grow in their reading abilities and build self-confidence.
Having used many reading programs over the past 20 years, I’ve yet to find one that has it all. Even if they align with solid reading research, usually what’s missing is the feel-good factor for kids. That’s why I’m passionate about creating literacy resources that are fun and effective for students and easy and enjoyable for teachers.
My husband Jack, who has artistic talent and 17 years’ teaching experience, illustrates many of my unique decodable books and letter cards.
INSPIRATION
“Being able to ‘lift words off the page’ and understand their meaning is transformational as a life skill.”
Pamela Snow
“Intensive instruction takes time, energy, resources, expertise, and persistence, but every student deserves a chance at literacy.”
Louisa Moats
“A student's success in reading is predicated on knowledgeable teachers who explicitly and systematically teach reliable langage structures using research-based instructional practices.”
Suzanne Carreker
“Effective teachers know that it is important to acknowledge each student, engage in meaningful feedback dialogues during teachable moments, and recognize individual student successes.”
Judith Birsh
“Words do two major things: they provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”
Jim Rohn
“Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
FUN FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH
- English is not as strange and unpredictable as many people believe. Approximately 87% of the English language is regular and can be predictably decoded.
- Despite there being 26 letters in the English language, there are 44 unique sounds, also known as phonemes.
- English is a morphophonemic language. In order to spell, we rely on our knowledge of the individual sounds within words (phonemes) and the meaning represented in word parts (morphemes).
- Open and closed syllables together account for 75% of all English syllables.
- Over 90% of new words encountered by students in their upper elementary texts will be polysyllabic.
- “When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking…” only about 40% of the time!