Reading

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This class is for students who are ready to learn to read. Discovery uses multi sensory methods to learn letter sounds, phonograms, blending, syllables, sight words, and spelling. While learning to read your student will learn to decode words, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. This curriculum is fun and very hands-on in its approach.

Tutor: Kelly Blackman

Price:  $1550 and a $100 class fee per year

Course Material: All About Reading 1 with a combination of Horizon Discovery Reading

This class is for students who are ready to learn to read or are having some difficulty reading. In All About Reading children use multi-sensory methods to learn letter sounds, phonographs, consonant teams, blending, syllables, sight words, plurals, etc. Aspects of reading taught are decoding,  vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.  

Screening for readiness is required. Both 1 and 1 EX are geared toward children with learning difficulties. However, 1 EX is for those who need a slower pace and more individualized instruction.  A combination of All About Reading workbooks will be used.

Price:  $1550 and $100 book/supply fee per year

An optional software component is available for $100 for a full year access.

Class size: 2-4 students

Discovery Reading Level 2 is a continuation of skills learned in level 1.  Students will continue to build their knowledge of reading skills in decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. 

Screening for readiness is required. Students should have already begun to read in order to be successful at this level. 

Spelling will be taught using explicit, Orton-Gillingham based instruction that is multi-sensory and logical in its approach to spelling. Students will learn the rules of spelling rather than simply memorizing a list of words. 

Price:  $1550 and $100 book/supply fee per year

 An optional software component is available for $100 for a full year access.

Class size: 2-4 students 

Students will learn the remaining phonograms used in English. They will learn to decode multisyllabic words and read words containing multiple suffixes.  Students will continue to develop their fluency while reading and expand their vocabulary.  Comprehension skills include making predictions and inferences, compare and contrast, summarizing, connecting to one’s own experiences and skimming for specific information.

This class also includes instruction in spelling.  

Screening is required for this class.

Price:  $1550 and $100 book/supply fee per year

Optional software component is available for $100 for a full year access. 

Class size: 2-4 students  

This class will focus on learning comprehension strategies that will help students better understand the texts they read. We will spend the first part of the year learning several comprehension strategies as we read texts that specifically focus on those skills. In the second part of the year we will improve our application of the strategies and skills learned through reading a novel.  This class will also include instruction in vocabulary and building understanding and use of vocabulary that is encountered in the texts we read and will support students in their daily lives.

Tutor:  Kelly Blackman

Price:  $1550 and $100 book/supply fee per year

Class size: Max 5 students  

In this course we will read and analyze a variety of classic literature.  Students will study and discuss literature themes and utilize various comprehension strategies to understand and appreciate literature, poetry and Bible passages.

This class will also include writing and vocabulary instruction. 

Screening is required for this class.

Price:  $700 and $50 book/supply fee  per year

Class size: 5-8