This class is for students who are ready to learn to read. Horizon Discovery Reading curriculum 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: Heather Loewenheim
Price: $1550 class fee per year
Course Material: Horizon Discovery Reading
Class size: 2-4 students
Got a struggling reader? This course is for you! In this course, students will learn phonemes of letters, segmenting, blending, dictation, syllables and fluency methods using a muti-sensory approach. Some other aspects included in this course would be decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension. Students will also be learning how to be a disciple to make disciples in daily Bible reading and Biblical character development. In this class, your child will crack the code to reading!
Tutor: Hannah Van Dellen
Price: $1550 fee per year
Course Material: Horizon Discovery Reading
Class size: 2-4 students
This course is a continuation of Reading 1. Students will build skills learned in Reading 1 with more emphasis in decoding, fluency, and comprehension. 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: Hannah Van Dellen
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.
This class also includes instruction in spelling.
Screening is required for this class.
Tutor: Heather Loewenheim
Price: $1550 fee per year
Course Material: Horizon Discovery Reading
Class size: 2-4 students
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 non fiction texts, articles and poems. To be in this class, students must be fluent readers but may struggle in comprehension, receptive language or have slow processing speeds. Students will also be learning how to be a disciple to make disciples in daily Bible reading and Biblical character development.
Tutor: Hannah Van Dellen
Price: $1550 fee per year
Course Material: Horizon Discovery Reading
Class size: 2-4 students
This class gives students more complex texts to read, analyze, and understand in deeper ways, thus strengthening their knowledge and comprehension skills. Core language arts concepts are utilized through engaging stories that foster value-based thinking. Mosdos Press Literature textbook features five units that focus on several genres of writing: short stories, poetry, nonfiction, drama, and novel selections. Stories are introduced with pre-reading notes to give students a focus and post-reading questions that cover recall and interpretation. Word Bank definitions are integrated throughout to define unfamiliar words and workbook activities will expand students' vocabulary. We will utilize graphic organizers, vocabulary exercises and writing activities from the student workbook to help students improve their ability to analyze and construct meaning from the literature they read.
Tutor: Heather Loewenheim
Price: $800 per year
Course Material: Mosdos Press Literature
This class includes reading comprehension, writing, and grammar. This class will read multiple novels and use them for discussion and comprehension practice. 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. The essays will be surrounded around Heroes from the Bible, so it will give the opportunity for a deeper dive into some of the Bible stories they are already familiar with.
Tutor: Gretchen Karl
Course Material: IEW - Institute for Excellence in Writing
Class size: Up to 10 students
This class includes reading comprehension, writing, and grammar. It will overlap with History for these grades as well, so that the 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 Ancient Civilizations 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 this English, along with History (grades 7-12) since there will be overlapping homework.
Tutor: Gretchen Karl
Course Material: IEW - Institute for Excellence in Writing
Class size: Up to 10 students