Reading

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Reading Foundations K  is for students who are ready to learn to read. This class utilizes Abeka’s Letters and Sounds K5 unbound phonics and cursive curriculum.  Colorful phonics worksheets and hands-on activities will help your child read and recognize his letters and their sounds, enhance his vocabulary, develop reasoning and listening skills, and follow directions. Your child will apply his understanding of one- and two-vowel words, special phonics sounds, and blends to create words, finish sentences, solve puzzles, and color pictures. As your child is introduced to various phonics concepts, the cursive writing book will give him the opportunity to learn how to write them. Each page is lined with special marks (red dots) to help your child remember where to start writing and the houses as a guide for correct placement of the letters. This class starts off with simple letters and blend combinations, but by the end of the year, your child will be ready to start writing full sentences!

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 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 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 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 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