Foundational Readers
Your reader, no matter the age or grade is struggling to break the code of reading and writing. They are still working to read and write fluently as well as build a sight word vocabulary. This student is reading at a second grade level or below.
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
We’ll strengthen your reader’s ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds in spoken and written language. The ability to recognize and manipulate individual sounds in words directly correlates to the ability to accurately decode, self correct through sound substitutions, and spell.
Spelling
During phonics instruction, and with increased phonological and phonemic awareness, your reader will not only improve their decoding, but their encoding as well. Your student will practice all letter-sound correspondence instruction through both reading and writing, as well as move into writing composition support as needed through the explicit and scaffolded Writing Without Tears model.
Comprehension/Vocabulary
At the foundational level, comprehension follows fluency. Our main goals are to create fluent readers and begin to lay foundation for comprehension strategies through explicit instruction of skills, think aloud modeling, and scaffolded practice through supported responses and writing. Explicit vocabulary instruction includes content vocabulary found in reading and writing materials.
Phonics Instruction
Your reader will engage in systematic, explicit, multi sensory, Orton Gillingham based phonics instruction. Phonics instruction follows a sequence of letter-sound correspondences increasing in complexity, including one to one sounds, consonant and vowel patterns and morpheme patterns.
Fluency
In order to comprehend what we read, it is necessary to read with accuracy, speed and proper inflection or expression. Readers who repeat, struggle to sound out or read with a flat affect lose meaning. Increasing fluency through repeated practice, phrase recognition and increasing visual processing and visual short term memory, increases comprehension.
$65 per session
For those in the Foundational Reading stage, it is recommended to meet two times per week to ensure that intensive instruction is being delivered. Weekly at home practice is also encouraged. Monthly progress monitoring and updates to your child’s classroom teacher or interventionist are also included.