Reading Intervention Specialist with 20+ years helping struggling readers, diverse learners and multilingual children find their confidence — in the Philippines, Thailand and online.
For more than 16 years I have designed and delivered evidence-based literacy programs for struggling readers, students with learning difficulties, and diverse learners — building fluency, comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, writing and, above all, academic confidence.
Individualized, data-informed instruction across literacy, numeracy and language.
Evidence-based programs in phonics, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary for readers who have fallen behind.
Rebuilding number sense and problem-solving step by step, with concrete-to-abstract progressions.
Pronunciation, grammar, business English and fluency for young learners through to adult professionals.
Individualized education plans developed and tracked with parents, therapists and multidisciplinary teams.
Play-based, Waldorf-informed learning: rhythm, handwork, imagination and social-emotional growth.
Inquiry-based, student-centred lessons for Grades 1–4 in an international school setting.
Warm classrooms, clear data, and instruction shaped around the child in front of me.
Every learner starts from a different place. Lessons are pitched, paced and scaffolded to meet them there — never one plan for the whole room.
Regular assessment and progress monitoring turn "he's struggling" into a specific, teachable next step — and show families the gains clearly.
Learning differences, language backgrounds and neurodiversity are planned for, not accommodated as an afterthought.
Close collaboration with parents, therapists, multidisciplinary teams and fellow educators keeps support consistent across school and home.
Two decades across international schools, learning centres, and online classrooms.
My own printable packs, plus the free official resources I rely on in each country.
A ready-to-print week of systematic phonics: six sound cards, a blending ladder, word bank, sight words, a fully decodable story, comprehension, handwriting, a one-minute fluency check and a progress record.
Official K–12 lesson plans, self-learning modules, activity sheets and the Reading Treasury — free to every teacher.
CoreCurriculum guides, department orders and national literacy and numeracy assessment guidance.
CurriculumFree storybooks and levelled readers in Filipino, Cebuano and English — Let's Read, Bloom Library, StoryWeaver and more.
ReadingComplete lesson plans, worksheets and recorded lessons for every primary grade, under royal patronage.
CorePrintable teaching plans and media, organised by grade level and subject.
WorksheetsOfficial science and mathematics activities and interactive lessons from IPST.
Science & MathsThe Basic Education Core Curriculum, standards and national school guidance.
CurriculumIPST's library of science, maths and technology teaching articles and media.
Science & MathsFree professional-development courses for Thai teachers, including active and inclusive learning.
Teacher PDAll links point to free, publicly available material. Nothing here is sold, and none of it replaces a teacher who knows the child.
Free storybooks, levelled readers and read-alouds in the languages children actually speak at home — Filipino, Cebuano and English. I start a struggling reader in their mother tongue, then bridge to Filipino and English.
The Asia Foundation's free digital library: illustrated children's books in Filipino, Cebuano and dozens of other languages, to read online or download and print.
Filipino · Cebuano · EnglishThousands of open, levelled and decodable books in many Philippine languages. Every book can be printed, read aloud, or translated into a child's mother tongue.
Mother tonguePratham Books' open library of illustrated stories in hundreds of languages, sorted by reading level, with read-along audio for many titles.
LevelledFree, openly licensed early-grade readers in many languages, made for exactly the age where children learn to decode.
Early gradesThe Department of Education's official library of lesson materials, learning modules and activity sheets for every K–12 grade, free to teachers and parents.
CoreThe order behind the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory, with graded passages in English and Filipino. The same scoring is used in the reading check below.
AssessmentFilipino educational videos and shows for basic education, many in Filipino — good for read-along and listening practice at home.
VideoThe national library's public services and e-resources, and the place to find your nearest public library with a children's section.
LibraryThe Commission on the Filipino Language — the official reference for Filipino spelling (Ortograpiyang Pambansa) when you're unsure how a word is written.
SpellingAll links are free and were checked on 1 October 2026. If one stops working, tell me and I'll replace it.
Quick checks a parent or teacher can run in about five minutes, scored the way Philippine schools score reading. They show where to start — they don't replace a full assessment by a teacher who knows the child.
How it works: the child reads the passage aloud while you follow on this screen. Tap any word they misread, skip or need help with. After one minute (or when they finish), you'll ask a few questions.
Tap a word to mark it as an error. Tap again to undo.
Ask each question aloud and tap the child's answer. Let them answer without looking back at the text.
Dolch pre-primer words — the 40 most common words in early reading. Show each word and let the child read it aloud. Count it only if they read it straight away, without sounding it out.
The Philippine Informal Reading Inventory: oral reading, silent reading and listening comprehension in English and Filipino, giving each learner an independent, instructional or frustration level.
Philippines · officialThe Comprehensive Rapid Literacy Assessment takes 5–8 minutes per child, in the mother tongue, Filipino and English, and sorts learners from "grade ready" to "full refresher". It's given by DepEd teachers — ask your child's school for the results.
Philippines · officialA standardised assessment of early reading, maths and developmental skills that I'm trained to administer. I use it to plan individual remedial programmes.
Used in my practiceThe Early Grade Reading Assessment toolkit used in many countries, including the Philippines: letter sounds, decoding, fluency and comprehension.
InternationalThese checks run entirely in your browser: nothing a child reads or answers is sent anywhere.
Three short games in English, Filipino and Cebuano. Picture clues help the youngest spellers; stars are saved on this device.
Word lists use everyday words from the home and the barangay. Ran the sight-word check? Its "not yet" words appear here under My words.
“I want every child to leave my classroom believing they are a reader, a mathematician, and someone worth listening to.”
— Daisy Jane EscaroOpen to teaching roles, reading intervention consulting, and one-to-one tutoring — in person or online.
Whether you're a school, a learning centre, or a parent looking for reading support, I'd love to hear from you.