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    • Admissions
      • General Information
      • Applications and Forms
      • Tuition and Fees
      • What We Believe
      • Handbook
      • FAQs
    • Classes
      • Preschool
      • Reading and Language Arts
      • Science
      • Social Studies
      • Math
      • Electives
      • Middle and High School
      • Foreign Language
    • Our Team
    • About Us
    • Grace Magnified
    • Media
      • Testimonials
      • Pictures
      • Videos
    • Calendar
    • Umbrella
    • Grace Farms
  • Home
  • Admissions
    • General Information
    • Applications and Forms
    • Tuition and Fees
    • What We Believe
    • Handbook
    • FAQs
  • Classes
    • Preschool
    • Reading and Language Arts
    • Science
    • Social Studies
    • Math
    • Electives
    • Middle and High School
    • Foreign Language
  • Our Team
  • About Us
  • Grace Magnified
  • Media
    • Testimonials
    • Pictures
    • Videos
  • Calendar
  • Umbrella
  • Grace Farms

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: Abeka


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 or Jonathan Boyer


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 

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