After years of struggling with curriculum that didn’t quite fit my classroom, I teamed up with my colleague Angela Griffith from The Daily Alphabet. We discussed the frustration of the material moving too fast or too slow, or simply not being a good fit at all. Finally, we decided to take matters into our own hands and create something that would work.
We identified gaps in the Phonics curriculums we used and decided to create a yearlong interactive read-aloud series and phonics curriculum to fill them. And so, The Phonics Diner and The Literacy Diner were born. All we wanted was an ideal teaching resource that made sense for our students.
Seeing fellow educators stuck in a similar predicament left us exhausted. However, it also motivated us to find ways to support them in cultivating their students’ growth. After experimenting with both sets, the results spoke for themselves: our students flourished beyond expectations.