Magic Penny Reading- Early Literacy Solutions for Home and School

Sandy, you are wonderful!!! I'm using the manipulatives and the MP Flip Book with the five students in my AIS/MP group and the boys are beginning to understand and give me answers. I love everything!! Thank you, Thank you!!! The children love the fish cards and are so happy they can quickly fill the card, count the pennies left to right and begin a new card several times in each lesson. Besides learning beginning sounds, rhyming and we will soon begin ending sounds, the boys can now count one-to-one, count past ten, sometimes up to fifty or sixty, and each boy is automatically working left to right, top to bottom, skills not automatic to one child before the MP groups. So....MP helps with math as well as reading readiness and reading. Thank you again, as always, and a special thank you for including the manipulatives and Flip Books. The children are ecstatic and immediately successful! I can use the flip books for a myriad of objectives.

Date of Posting: 14 September 2009
Posted By: Jacquie S.

Dear Ms. Schneider, I wanted to write to you to tell you how over the moon we are with the Magic Penny Reading Program. My son Patrick is in Mrs. DeFabio's kindergarten class at St. Gregory the Great. Originially, he was to be placed in another kindergarten class; however, I had heard about Magic Penny from a good friend who teaches the program in her kindergarten class and had nothing but great things to say about it. Patrick has been receiving speech services since he's been 3 1/2. I phoned the principal of our school and inquired about the program and thought it would be a good fit for Patrick given the issues he had with his speech. Mrs. Freund agreed that he would be a good candidate for the class. Since starting kindergarten and the program, we have seen nothing but steady progress from Patrick in his reading skills, which has also had a positive effect on his speech as well. I can recall that only one month into school, Patrick was already trying to decode words and read on his own. Having an older daughter who went through kindergarten 3 years prior, I recalled that she didn't start reading until January of the school year. Patrick loves to read. We have also noticed a big improvement in his speech intelligibility. He pronounces his words more clearly and is not deleting his end consonants as he did before. We owe so much to both the Magic Penny Program and Patrick's teacher for helping him come so far in such a short time. We are very excited at the prospect of how much his reading skills will improve over the next two years with Magic Penny and feel blessed to have had the opportunity to experience Magic Penny first hand.

Date of Posting: 17 June 2009
Posted By: Josie T

Sam got a 59 on her kindergarten screening test in May 2008. She hardly knew her alphabet, in spite of my trying to teach her and years of preschool! Mrs. Abbott tutored Sam 2x per week during the summer, and introduced Magic Penny. After your class, she can read and write, and amazing progress was noted after just 8 weeks into the school year. I am still amazed. If you can't add these notes, know that my gratitude extends to the program director, St G's volunteers and room moms, parent readers, and especially you for setting the bar high and helping them to achieve great goals under your direction. I am proud, and very relieved, to have a reader, who is happy to imitate her mom, dad and older sister, and pick up a book all by herself and confidently read it!

Date of Posting: 16 June 2009
Posted By: Mother of child St. Gregory the Great in Kindergarten

Thank you so much Sandy. I have to tell you how thrilled I am with the MP Program...my students are decoding everything! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for putting all the pieces together...Thanks. Leanna L. Erlandson Kindergarten Teacher

Date of Posting: 01 June 2009
Posted By: Leanna Erlandson
Kindergarten teacher

Thanks to Magic Penny I have a daughter who just loves to read anything she can get her hands on!!! I thank God every night for your wonderful program.

Date of Posting: 15 May 2009
Posted By: Nadine B

“I am delighted to report that when our first group of Magic Penny children (2003) took their Grade 3 NYS ELA Assessments last year, they all scored a “3” or a “4”! We also had 2 perfect scores!” Debbie Staszak, Principal, East Elementary School

Date of Posting: 15 April 2008
Posted By: Debbie S