我第一個小學生。前測的結果的確使父母擔憂：小五學生卻未達小一程度，學了七年英文，基本上是英文聾啞，完全「開不到口」。經過兩節朗讀課，作了一篇文，信心就來了。

Lisa is my first primary student, daughter of a friend in Tin Shui Wai. She is primary five in a government school. She kept telling herself, 'I cannot do it. I cannot work out the sounds. I am no good.' She has been put in Class A - a non-elite class. 

This is Lisa' first piece of writing modelling on the reading text from i-learner reading level 2, "My classroom is exciting". The first session I had with Lisa was at the Ping Shan Tin Shui Wai Public Library, diagnosing her reading level using the ladybird read aloud books. She was a clear case of 'struggling reader' with hardly 200 sight vocabulary, with basically zero phonemic awareness. Having gone through the diagnostic cum treatment reading aloud session, she proved to be a very normal child. The second session she heard the reading passage from i-learner a few times and then she could make up her own story by substituting the key words retrieving from her limited vocabulary bank. After reading a few more phonics books during the third session, she was well on the way of recovery. She could even make good guesses of the spelling of words from videos in the English Central programs!