From Overwhelmed to Outstanding: Eli’s Story
Eli once hid under his desk when classwork felt impossible. Now he’s the first to volunteer to read aloud.
When Eli first came to Julie Billiart, a full page of text could send him under his desk. Reading felt like a wall he could never climb, and the harder he tried, the more frustrated he became.
His teachers broke that wall into steps. With multisensory reading support and a lot of patience, Eli started sounding out words, then sentences, then whole pages.
Last month, he raised his hand to read aloud to the class — something his family once thought impossible. “I’m good at reading now,” he announced afterward. And he is.