Reading Decoding
Bumblebee Reading
Caterpillar Reading
Caterpillar Reading
This class uses an Orton-Gillingham-based program that teaches foundational literacy skills using multisensory strategies. Students will learn techniques for syllable counting and the alphabet phonograms, plus six of the most common two-letter phonograms. Decoding skills taught include reading short vowel words, using phonograms, and compound words. Vocabulary, reading fluency, and comprehension are all emphasized throughout.
Tutor: Erin De Leon or Jessica Mills
Price: $1550 class fee per year
Class size: 2-4 students
Course Material: All About Reading Level 1
Caterpillar Reading
Caterpillar Reading
Caterpillar Reading
This class will continue to teach important reading skills including phonological awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. This class includes review and new teaching. Students will learn phonograms, vowel teams, syllable types, initial and final blends, three-letter blends, syllable division rules, contractions, Silent E, and much more! Reading comprehension and fluency skills will be worked on as well.
Tutor: Jessica Mills
Price: $1550 class fee per year
Class size: 2-4 students
Course Material: All About Reading
Dragonfly Reading
Grasshopper Reading
Grasshopper Reading
This class will teach important reading skills including phonological awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Your student will learn phonograms, vowel teams, syllable types, suffixes, prefixes, syllable division rules, the jobs of Silent E, and much more! Reading comprehension and fluency skills will also be a main focus.
Tutor: Gretchen Karl
Price: $1550 fee per year
Class size: 2-4 students
Course Material: All About Reading
Grasshopper Reading
Grasshopper Reading
Grasshopper Reading
This course continues to develop essential reading skills, including phonological awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Students will learn 15 new phonograms and expand their understanding of multisyllabic words, including those with unaccented syllables. Instruction also includes the study of numerous prefixes and suffixes, word morphology, and words influenced by Greek, French, Spanish, and Italian origins. Strong emphasis is placed on strengthening reading comprehension skills as students grow in accuracy, confidence, and understanding.
Tutor: Gretchen Karl
Price: $1550 fee per year
Class size: 2-4 students
Course Material: All About Reading
Language Arts/English
Capybara Language Arts
Capybara Language Arts
Capybara Language Arts
This class includes reading comprehension, writing, and grammar. This class will read multiple novels and use them for discussion and comprehension practice. The books read will reinforce events that students are learning in Social Studies. Scaffolding writing will be used to master paragraph structure and extend into multiple paragraphs.
Tutor: Holly Webster
Price: $700
Course Material: Fix It Grammar and IEW - Institute for Excellence in Writing
Class size: Up to 10 students
Hedgehog Language Arts
Capybara Language Arts
Capybara Language Arts
This class includes reading comprehension, writing, and grammar. This class will read multiple novels and use them for discussion and comprehension practice. The novels read are historical fiction and will reinforce events that students are learning in Social Studies. Scaffolded writing will be used for teaching structured writing in varying types of essay types, such as: writing from narratives, summarizing references, writing from pictures, and creative writing.
Tutor: Erin De Leon
Price: $700
Course Material: Fix It Grammar and IEW - Institute for Excellence in Writing
Class size: Up to 10 students
Woodchuck Language Arts
Woodchuck Language Arts
Woodchuck Language Arts
This class includes reading comprehension, writing, and grammar. This class will read multiple novels and use them for discussion and comprehension practice. The novels read are historical fiction and will reinforce events that students are learning in Social Studies. Scaffolded writing will be used for teaching structured writing in varying types of essay types, such as: writing from narratives, summarizing references, writing from pictures, and creative writing.
Tutor: Jessica Mills
Price: $700
Course Material: Fix It Grammar and IEW - Institute for Excellence in Writing
Class size: Up to 10 students
Owl English
Woodchuck Language Arts
Woodchuck Language Arts
This class includes reading comprehension, writing, and grammar. It will overlap with History for these grades as well, so that topics they are writing and reading about intertwine with what they are learning in History class. This class will read novels and use them for discussion and comprehension practice. A focus will be placed on structured writing so that students will be able to effectively construct essays based on areas such as: writing from notes, narrative stories, summarizing a reference, writing from pictures, and writing from multiple references.
Tutor: Renee Thevenet-Rodbell
Price: $700
Course Material: Fix It Grammar and IEW - Institute for Excellence in Writing
Class size: Up to 10 students
Enrollment for 2026-2027 is now open!