Reading
Reading Foundations
Building Reading Skills
Building Reading Skills
All About Reading’s Orton-Gillingham-based program teaches foundational literacy skills using multisensory strategies. In Level 1, 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: Heather Loewenheim, Hannah Van Dellen, or Jessica Mills
Price: $1550 class fee per year
Course Material: All About Reading Level 1
Class size: 2-4 students
Building Reading Skills
Building Reading Skills
Building Reading Skills
Building Reading Skills uses the Reading Horizons Discovery Program and is a continuation of Discovery Reading. Students will build skills learned in Discovery Reading with emphasis in decoding, fluency, and comprehension of more complex words. Students will learn more digraphs, longer syllable words and higher dictation vocabulary. To be in this course, students must know how to be able to read to be successful at this level. Students will continue to learn multi-sensory approaches to establish reading foundations. Students will also begin spelling skills, learning spelling codes rather than memorizing spelling words. Students will also be learning how to be a disciple to make disciples in daily Bible reading and Biblical character development.
Tutor: Heather Loewenheim, Hannah Van Dellen
Price: $1550 class fee per year
Course Material: Horizon Discovery Reading
Class size: 2-4 students
Rising Reader
Building Reading Skills
Rising Reader
Rising Readers uses the Reading Horizons Discovery Program. 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. This class also includes instruction in spelling.
Tutor: Heather Loewenheim
Price: $1550 fee per year
Course Material: Horizon Discovery Reading
Class size: 2-4 students
Reading Savvy
Elevate Reading
Rising Reader
Reading Savvy uses the final chapters of Reading Horizon Discovery Program to solidify decoding skills. Then, with reading skills established, students will learn basic comprehension skills, integration of knowledge and ideas, the craft and structure of stories, and learn how to pick out key ideas and details in texts. Students will read a variety of genres, fiction, and nonfiction texts, articles, and poems. To be in this class, students must be fluent readers but may struggle in comprehension, and receptive language, or have slow processing speeds. Students will also be learning how to be a disciple and to make disciples in daily Bible reading and Biblical character development.
Tutor: Heather Loewenheim or Hannah Van Dellen
Price: $1550 fee per year
Course Material: Horizon Discovery Reading
Class size: 2-4 students
Elevate Reading
Elevate Reading
Elevate Reading
Elevate Reading uses Reading Horizon Elevate, an Orton-Gillingham-based, multisensory approach to teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, high-frequency words, and fluency. This class is geared toward older students who need to solidify their reading skills. We use an intentional sequence, unique marking system, and simple rules to help with decoding and encoding. We will be working on spelling as we learn to decode words.
Tutor: Heather Loewenheim
Price: $1550 fee per year
Course Material: Horizon Elevate Reading
Class size: 2-4 students
Language Arts
Language Arts (4-5)
Language Arts (4-5)
Language Arts (4-5)
Language Arts (grades 4-5, 6-7) will utilize the Good and the Beautiful creative writing, Fix It Grammar, and Mosdos literature. This class teaches skills such as adding sensory descriptions, generating ideas, using gestures to show emotion, and creating engaging characters and plots. The goal is to foster a love for writing, motivate students, and help them overcome writer's block. Core language arts concepts are utilized through engaging stories that foster value-based thinking. Mosdos Press Literature textbook features several genres of writing: short stories, poetry, nonfiction, drama, and novel selections. Students will learn important comprehension skills and vocabulary through graphic organizers and classroom conversations.
Tutor: Heather Loewenheim and Angela Tritt
Price: $700
Course Material: Good and the Beautiful, Fix It Grammar, and Mosdos literature
Class size: Up to 10 students
Language Arts (6-7)
Language Arts (4-5)
Language Arts (4-5)
Language Arts will utilize IEW Adventures in Writing; and a variety of chapter books. 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. IEW will be used for teaching structured writing in varying types of essays, such as: writing from narratives, summarizing references, writing from pictures, and creative writing.
Tutor: Gretchen Karl
Price: $700
Course Material: IEW - Institute for Excellence in Writing
Class size: Up to 10 students
English
Language Arts (4-5)
English
English (grades 8-12), will utilize IEW US History-Based Writing; and a variety of chapter books.
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 IEW’s US History in areas such as: writing from notes, narrative stories, summarizing a reference, writing from pictures, and writing from multiple references.
Ideally we would like students to take both this English, along with History (grades 8-12)
Tutor: Gretchen Karl
Price: $800 and $25 supply fee
Course Material: IEW - Institute for Excellence in Writing
Class size: Up to 10 students