Reading

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

Screening for readiness is available.  

Class size 4 students

$1500/year           Book/supply fee $100

Tutor: Sarah Donegan

All  About 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. Students should have  already begun to read in order to be successful in this level.

All  About Spelling provides 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. 

Screening for readiness is available.

Class size 4 students

$1500/year          

Book/supply fee $100

Tutor: Ang Wolf

Continuation of All About Reading Level 2. Students will build on skills learned in  Level 2 including learning more phonograms and syllable types. Students  will learn to identify base words and read words with suffixes and  prefixes. Students will develop new vocabulary including synonyms,  antonyms, similes, idioms and more. Students will continue to develop fluency and comprehension skills including making predictions, compare and contrast and skim for specific information.  

All About Spelling Level 2  builds  on basic skills learned in Level 1. Students will learn 11 new  phonograms, vowel teams, syllable division rules, Silent E and  Vowel-Consonant-E words, blends, and R-controlled syllables.  

Placement screening is available.

Class size 4 students

$1500/year           

Book/supply fee $100

Tutor: Ang Wolf

This  is the final level in the All About Reading 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. They will understand homonyms and heteronyms and  explore words with Greek, French, Spanish and Italian influence.   Comprehension skills include making predictions and inferences, compare  and contrast, summarizing, connecting to one’s own experiences and  skimming for specific information.

All About Spelling Level 3 continues developing skills learned from Level 2. Students  will learn 10 new phonograms, the jobs of Silent E, words with C+l-e  syllables, contractions, homophones, consonant and vowel suffixes, and  past tense.  

Placement screening is available.

Class size 4 students

$1500/year           

Book/supply fee $100

Tutor: Ang Wolf

This  class is designed for students who read at an approximately 4th-6th  grade level, but are having difficulty comprehending the material they  read. We will focus on reading strategies using the Making Connections  reading program.  Making Connections®  is a direct, systematic, and highly interactive comprehension program  that teaches students strategies to build their comprehension.  In the  second part of the year we will read  one or two novels of appropriate reading level  to practice  applying the skills and strategies learned during the fall  semester. This class will also include instruction in spelling using the MegaWords curriculum.

$1500/year                

 Book/supply fee $100

Tutor: Ang Wolf

An  intensive reading program for older struggling  readers. S.P.I.R.E.  provides explicit instruction using the same process for each lesson.  Students will engage in multi sensory activities to build phonological  skills, word building and decoding, reading, and spelling. 

Class size  4 students. 

$1500/year           

Book/supply fee $100

Tutor: Ang Wolf