Eve Engelbrite has been writing poems and songs since she was eight. Her first poems were published when she was twelve; the same age when she wrote 4-line poems for all 50 teachers at her junior high school. Nine years later she graduated from ASU with a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education.
Eve developed her first color-assonant reading system into the product “Color Phonics” in 1994. She wrote ten story-poems she wished to see printed, but 4-color printing was too expensive in the 90’s. After some new additions and refinements to the system, it is now called “Prism Phonics”. It applies 14 colors to letters in the text to aid pronunciation and reading. For example, blue makes the /oo/ sound in the phrase “two new blue shoes” and the underlined letters would all be colored blue.
By combining the Prism Phonics system with a rhythmic poem containing repetition, the reader can more easily see the syllables and determine the vowel sounds by color name. But wait; there’s more. Having taught in several states from coast to coast, Eve realized the great need for students learning English to have books created for them which include their native language in their native setting. The first of this series is Prism Phonics: I Love My Dad (K-2 ELD: Spanish). The setting of the story is in Mexico City and contains the English story in colorized text and the story in Spanish in normal text.
Learn more about her here and her books here: https://prismphonics.com/