
Safra’s Story
A New Step in Reading – My Classroom Journey
By A.S.F. Safra
Primary Teacher | WP/Mt-Vogan Tamil Vidyalaya, Mathugama
Trained Teacher in Primary Education | Reading B.Ed. (Hons.) – National Institute of Education (NIE), Sri Lanka
I am a trained teacher in primary education with 10 years of teaching experience, and I have been teaching English for the past four years. While working in the classroom, I saw that many of my students found it hard to read English. They struggled with reading simple words, and this made it harder for them to learn the language well.
I wanted to help them. That’s when I found the Lotus English Literacy Program. This program changed how I teach. It uses phonics—teaching the sounds of letters—to help children learn to read step by step. After I started using this method, I saw big changes. My students began to enjoy reading and could understand words more easily.
Watching them improve made me feel very happy. I believe this is one of the best things in my teaching journey.