 Three, two, read. Three, two, read. If somebody had told me five years ago, I'm going to take your struggling reader and in a week I'm going to turn them into the expert reader amongst their peers. I wouldn't have believed that. We've chosen this life to serve and we've moved our families abroad. I have three kids, all three of them have made it very clear. Dad, you can't tell anybody it was easy. Most military brats move up to ten times in their school career. It takes somebody special to be able to deal with a kid that has dealt with those challenges of multiple moves and changes of friends. It's especially important in intervention services that we hit the nail on the head and we do it quickly because we're not guaranteed that Kido is going to be here for an extended period of time. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her. Swallowed the spider to catch the fly. We use a lot of tactile input to vowels, walking. The first one does the talking. Good job on your own. Anything that we can do to get those neural pathways sparked and going, I'm in. I always thought that I would be a string teacher, but the opportunities that Dodea has given me as a teacher have allowed me to see things in a new light across subject content areas. Sound. Musicians are used to reading symbols on a page and translating that to sound. Letters are symbols on a page and then the student has to transfer a symbol to the sound it makes. Tell me all the sounds in cute. My turn. That's what we teach in music education. It's also what we teach in reading. There was an old lady who swallowed a dog. I want the dog to catch the cat, but I don't know why she swallowed that fly. Oh my, oh my. You've worked hard. Okay, remember? Patricia exemplifies all the teachers in Dodea in meeting those needs of the students where they are. Real close. In the past five years, we've started doing something called front loading at this school. The card is plant. Card. I in pull out services deliver the lesson that the child is going to receive the following week in the homeroom with their teacher. Ms. Hannon has been working with Jeremy since last year. He had come home one day and he had said, Mommy, do you think I'm stupid? And I hear that all the time when I start working with students and as heartbreaking as that can be, my heartbreak doesn't serve them at all. My action will. Her sight words, her one-on-one working with him, it's made a big change. When I just first started it, I was not very good and I'd done it and done it and done it and I got better and better and better. Kids that now view themselves as readers that really did not have that same feeling about themselves and that's pretty important because it's all about their self-esteem. And this has been by far the intervention technique that's had the most impact on our struggling learners. I think Patricia is the perfect example of the unsung heroes inside of our schools. Everything she does is behind the scenes but without her, the scenes wouldn't work. My whole job is to hold them to the light and hopefully they can find the light on their own after they leave.