Literacy Tutoring

All literacy tutoring is taught by trained Orton Gillingham tutors who hold Master's degrees in literacy, special education, child development or a related field. Learning Specialists have extensive knowledge of children with differing needs, including children who have dyslexia, language based learning difficulties and attentional difficulties. 

 

Multi-sensory education incorporates the three learning pathways, which are: auditory, kinesthetic, and visual. This approach is beneficial for students who learn in multiple ways. Orton Gillingham stresses mastery over memorization of reading concepts.  We strive to teach children sound-symbol associations and develop the child’s understanding of how phonemes and morphemes, such as prefixes, suffixes, and roots are used in our language.

 

We cultivate successful readers by teaching the auditory relationship between letters and sounds (decoding/reading) as well as the auditory to visual relationship (encoding/writing) in a systemic curriculum. Reading and writing are practiced using sight, hearing, touch, and awareness of motion in each session so the child develops into a confident, independent reader.

 

In each session, the child's progress is assessed so future goals target the next appropriate concept. 

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