Zain, my son, is five and a half. Although it’s his fourth year in school since play group, he hadn’t pretty much moved on from A, B, C, D - or at most a set of sight words. His teachers complained of his inattentiveness and lack of focus and that he was way behind in class. Despite all my efforts, I couldn’t get him interested in reading or practising writing and homework was becoming quite an unwanted task at home. I was also worried how he would cope with the grade 1 curriculum after six months.

Then I put him in the phonics course with Mahrukh. A couple of other kids from school also joined in. After the first class, he came home quite happy and told me they had fun. He would eagerly wait to go every time and enjoyed whatever they were doing.

In the beginning, I helped him practise reading the lists of words but by the tenth session he would not only read the word lists eagerly but he also started reading billboard shop signs. Even now, while he is sitting or playing, he tries to break up every spoken word and names of people.

By the end of the second month, his class teacher started praising his progress and said he was not only par with the class but most of the time he tends to do more than what is required. If asked to write the vowel sound in a word, he would write the whole word.

Zain’s confidence is improving as he is learning new words every week. It is one class he loves going to and waits for. I personally have never been interested in teaching but this course got me curious and I have asked Mahrukh to arrange for a workshop or a one day session for parents.

My husband and I are so pleased and thankful to Mahrukh and Phonics International. It has given our son the jump start he needed to begin his studies in grade 1. As far as Phonics International is concerned, it is the most brilliant programme which has techniques to teach so many similar sounding words for reading and spelling.

Mr. and Mrs. Mosa

Mahrukh’s tutoring has brought a drastic change in my daughter, Hamna. Before starting Phonics International, she was unable to recognise vowel sounds. She was losing her confidence. Mahrukh, by giving her extra attention and using the effective ways of teaching, helped Hamna to build up her confidence and within two weeks of work she was able to read all one syllable words easily.

Now, after two months, my daughter can read story books and do her homework independently. Thank you Mahruhk and Phonics International.

Mrs. Nausheen Samad

“My child learnt to blend words in a most effective way through instructions provided by Phonics International.”

“My 4 years old daughter loves attending these reading classes. She learnt to break apart and manipulate sounds in a word and even learnt to write letters.”

“I could see the greatest improvement in my son's ability as a good reader to spell more accurately.”

“Ahmed, a 5th grader, learnt a variety of systematic strategies which assisted him to learn to recall and summarize the information.”

“My 8 years old son is highly motivated and encouraged by Mahrukh's style of teaching which made him a confident reader and his behaviour became less aggressive at home.”

“My child's vocabulary has improved tremendously with multiple exposures to vocabulary words helped as Mahrukh used a number of techniques to identify new vocabulary.”