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This is NOT your typical tutoring - all of these offerings fall under the Structured Literacy approach, which breaks down language into manageable patterns and structures in a systematic way.
The curriculum is multi-sensory, explicit, systematic and cumulative.
All lessons are tailored to the individual student using a diagnostic/prescriptive approach.
Basic Language Skills
Based on the Orton-Gillingham methodology, this curriculum covers everything dyslexic students need: word recognition, handwriting, spelling, composition, oral language, and comprehension skills.
This curriculum typically takes three years to complete.
Reading Readiness
Appropriate for pre-readers, typically in kindergarten.
Focuses on the foundational skills necessary to become fluent readers and accurate spellers.
Multisensory Grammar
Makes abstract grammar concepts more concrete using a hands-on curriculum based on color-coding.
Includes strategies for increasing students’ sentence complexity when writing and the use of parts of speech in the construction and revision of written paragraphs.
Written Composition Fundamentals
Focuses on the structures of descriptive, narrative, process, compare and contrast, and persuasive paragraphs.
Includes strategies to enhance the quality of paragraph writing
and how to edit and revise paragraphs.
Scientific Spelling
Increases students’ phonological awareness.
Explicitly teaches reliable spelling patterns and rules, and includes strategies for learning words with unexpected spellings.
Developing Metacognitive Strategies
Ideal for upper elementary and middle school students.
Focuses on strategies for increasing vocabulary and background knowledge, summarization activities, questioning techniques, and activities that increase oral language.
Developing Vocabulary for Reading Success
Teaches strategies for learning specific vocabulary such as word webs and word-learning strategies.
SMARTS Executive Functioning
Focuses on the core strategies of: goal setting, cognitive flexibility, organizing and prioritizing, memorizing, self-checking and monitoring.
This curriculum is especially helpful for students who struggle with learning differences, including dyslexia and ADHD.
Kindergarten Screening
Screening for potential reading difficulties can be done as early as the end of kindergarten. This is just like a vision or hearing screening - it will flag the problem but not diagnose it.
The earlier a child is screened, the earlier intervention can start.